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Re: Structural Type Equivalence in Modula-3: Why?

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From: Preston Briggs
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 17:20
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In article <3508@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu8209@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Glassy) writes:
>Page 2, Sect. 2, Par. 1 Line 1 of "Modula-3 Report (revised)" by
>Cardelli, Donahue et al indicates Modula-3 uses structural type
>equivalence, instead of name type equivalence used in Modula-2.

Besides Chase's comments in another article, there's a paper
expanding on some of the rationale

	The Modula-3 type system
	Cardelli, Donahue, Jordan, Kalsow, Nelson
	POPL 16, 1989

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