Re: FST Modula-2

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1 total messages Started by Mike Feldman Tue, 02 Feb 1988 00:52

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Author: Mike Feldman
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1988 00:52

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RE: question about underscore characters:

Neither Pascal nor Modula-2 allows underscores in the official alphabet.
(I checked Wirth 3 ed. and the official Pascal standard on this). If you
have written identifiers with underscores using some extended Pascal, you
are out of luck (these won't even compile on a "standard" Pascal compiler).

As a computer science professor I have developed a real "thing" about
language standards. People don't read them and compilers don't implement
them correctly.

I realize this is a list on Modula-2 - but one of the nice things we can
all say about Ada is that the standard is well known, and the US government
tests compilers for standard conformance (including the prohibition against
supersetting). You wouldn't have this problem with Ada. Sigh...

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