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In article <849@htsa.uucp> fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten) writes:
>[my remark...]
>>you pass the procedure dynamically. I do not believe that this
>>feature is really undesirable, however was it really intended?
>
>It probably was not intended.  I think Wirth thinks of a lot of
>nice features for a programming language, but doesn't consider
>all consequences before publishing.  The fact that he manages
>to write a lot of contradictionary things (even within one book)
               can You justify this??      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>supports this.  Also, he is not clear on why some things are or
>are not allowed.  Why is it that you are not allowed to assign a
>local procedure to a procedure variable ?
This is absolutely clear: a local procedure has possibly a scope
that globals have not.
                                            Why can't a standard
>procedure be assigned to a procedure variable ?
Because some of them are _generic_. It would really exceed the
aim of Modula to allow generic procs in general. Take for
example SIZE if You assign SIZE to a procedure variable, which
is already typed, the result would be already fixed. Well it
would make some sense, but not very much at all...
>

Ulrich