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Re: New edition of Modula-2 bible, some comments

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From: Robert A. Agnew
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 01:09
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In article <2132@ceriel.cs.vu.nl> ceriel@cs.vu.nl (Ceriel Jacobs) writes:
>     TRUNC(x), HIGH(a), ORD(ch), and SIZE(T) are of type INTEGER
>However, in paragraph 10.2 of the report, page 150, we read:
>  ... ORD(x)	ordinal number (of type CARDINAL) ...
Remember that in the 4th edition CARDINAL is no longer a type and is now a
subtype of INTEGER range [0..32767]. In fact, either an INTEGER or CARDINAL
could be used here.
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From: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: New edition of Modula-2 bible, some comments
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Date: 10 Mar 89 01:09:16 GMT
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