Re: Why doesn't Oberon have proper procedure values?

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From: Simon Egli
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:03

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 > Is there any good reason why Oberon doesn't allow this?  I don't seem
> to have any serious difficulty in implementing it!
> 
> -- Mike Spivey

There is a serious difficulty in implementing it. Such a construct would
give you the possibility of calling a local procedure from an global scope,
what fails, if the local procedure accesses local variables from an outer scope.

bye,

Simi

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ubaclu.unibas.ch!eglis
From: eglis@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Simon Egli)
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Subject: Re: Why doesn't Oberon have proper procedure values?
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Date: 22 Jan 96 16:03:00 MET
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