Missing from Modula-2

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From: Ian Moor
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 09:19

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Why, if the function f returns a pointer can I not write:

       f(x)^.field := ...

instead of:

       temporary := f(x);
       temporary^.field := ...

o.k so the compiler has to allocate a temporary location. I notice that
the DECWRL compiler will cope with this by the way.
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Ian W Moor
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