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> What is missing in Oberon-2 is something like type-bound operators,
> implemented similar to type-bound procedures.
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> PROCEDURE( COMPLEX ) "+" 
> ( VAR RVal1 : COMPLEX; 
>   VAR RVal2 : COMPLEX
> ) : COMPLEX;
> BEGIN
>   ....
> END "+";
> 
> Juergen Neuhoff

Even if Oberon-2 had type-bound infix operators, you still would not be able
to return structured types from a function so any types would have to be
implemented as pointers.  While not especially difficult it would make the
garbage collector work much harder tracking all the freed variables which
could have been stack-based instead of heap-based.


Regards,
	Michael
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