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Re: Is this a compiler bug?

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From: joel
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1989 23:12
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Like I said, treating casts as something different from functions, even though
they look the same, isn't standard.  But one can very easily argue that the
reason it wasn't included in Modula-2 was the small implementation hassles.
Changing the grammar is trivial enough, and you would have ended up not having
 stupid discussions on the net when someone tries do something reasonable.

Module variables and inheritance is another story.  Yes, I'd like a real nice
object-oriented and strongly-typed language.  But that won't come from making
trivial changes to Modula-2.

Joel McCormack
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