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seurer@nordruth.rchland.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) wrote:
>In article <DnrCDH.17u@lut.ac.uk>, "J.Last" <eljl3@dwalin.lut.ac.uk> writes:
>|> I use both the FTL Modula-2 compiler for CP/M and the Stony Brook compiler for
>|> the PC. In the FTL compiler, this statement was fine:
>|> 
>|> TYPE Vector: ARRAY [0..10] OF REAL;
>
>Try
>
>  TYPE Vector = ARRAY [0..10] OR REAL;
>
>The one with the : in it is invalid syntax.
>-- 
>
>- Bill Seurer     ID Tools and Compiler Development      IBM Rochester, MN
>  Business: BillSeurer@vnet.ibm.com               Home: BillSeurer@aol.com

Yeah, sorry for this posting. There's a mistake there....full marks you spotted
it. This posting only got half posted for some reason. What I meant to say was:

My FTL M-2 compiler allows me to return structured types like this:

PROCEDURE Thingy(Bob:REAL):StructuredType;

Whereas the StonyBrook DOS compiler won't let me. I have to do:

PROCEDURE Thingy(Bob:REAL;VAR Fred:StructuredType);

Is there a good reason for this?

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