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Article #5017Re: Standard Modules
From: Rick Sutcliffe
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 20:41
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 20:41
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In article <1990Mar8.195302.6263@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, chris@sarah.lerc.nasa.gov (Chris Johnston) writes: > The draft standard specifies some standard modules, IO and SIO, for > instance. It looks as if the Wirth modules InOut and FileSystem are not > included as standard modules. True? If so, dosen't this make life more > difficult for those of us who have been using the commonly available > (if not standard) InOut and FileSystem? True, the old modules are not. InOut was never all that standard anyway, especially in the treatment of redirection. Files were handled differently by almost every one of the more than thirty M2 compilers I have used. You will not have to change much to use the S modules, just your IMPORT line. Portability should be improved. Rick Sutcliffe Associate Professor \ (89-90 only) Visitor Computing Science & Mathematics \ School of Computing Science Trinity Western University \ Simon Fraser University 7600 Glover Rd., \ Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 Langley B.C. Canada V3A 4R9 e-mail: Rick_Sutcliffe@cc.sfu.ca OR Compuserve 76475,3406 WG13 (modula-2) coordinator Canada
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!fornax!rsutc From: rsutc@fornax.UUCP (Rick Sutcliffe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Standard Modules Message-ID: <416@fornax.UUCP> Date: 9 Mar 90 20:41:28 GMT References: <1990Mar8.195302.6263@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada Lines: 21