Is this a compiler bug?

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From: Robert Barton
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1989 11:47

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  Many thanks to all who responded via net or mail to my question about

    INC(CARDINAL(variableDeclaredAsBitset));

generating a "variable expected" error.  I suspected I was doing something
wrong, but I couldn't figure out what from the references I had at hand.
The explanation concerning l-values versus r-values makes sense.  A couple
people also provided the "virtual declaration" of INC() as a compiler sees
it.  It would be nice to have a list of these for the various standard
procedures if anyone could point me to one.  Thanks again for all the help
and suggestions.

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From: bartonr@psu-cs.UUCP (Robert Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Is this a compiler bug?
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Date: 7 Mar 89 11:47:14 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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