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Article #2009Re: How to write NEW?
From: eepjm
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 01:29
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 01:29
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In article <1991Apr22.155056.10010@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, I wrote: > > The answer is actually quite simple, it's only the documentation that's > bad. EVERY Modula-2 compiler supports NEW and DISPOSE (if you find one > that doesn't, you've been cheated) in the following way. When NEW(Var) > appears in your source, it is automatically translated by the compiler My humble apologies for getting this wrong. It seems that there *are* compilers which fail to support NEW and DISPOSE, and that they don't violate the de facto standard described by the third edition of Wirth's book. (To see this, you have to note carefully what Wirth *didn't* say). I still believe that the people who bought those compilers have been cheated, but I shouldn't have jumped in and assumed that other people didn't understand the language. (Creeps out, red-faced). Peter Moylan eepjm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!cc.newcastle.edu.au!eepjm From: eepjm@cc.newcastle.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: How to write NEW? Message-ID: <1991Apr26.112948.10043@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Date: 26 Apr 91 01:29:47 GMT References: <5122672@janhh.hanse.de> <1991Apr22.155056.10010@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA Lines: 17