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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 15:44:31 +1100
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- Douglas Evan Cook <cookd@cs.byu.edu> writes:
- >Good grief :) You just declare one type as another. In Pascal or M2, try
- >TYPE
- > INT16 : INTEGER;
-
- This is not legal Pascal syntax. Is it legal Modula 2?
-
- The original poster's point remains: the
- <type name> = <type term>;
- construction in Pascal does not create abstract data types and does not
- "unify" anything, let alone "thousands of ADTs".
-
- >If you are interested in the typedef equivalent in any other languages,
- >let me know.
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- ANSI PL/I? Algol 60.1? Simula 67? Fortran 77?
-
- --
- "conventional orthography is ... a near optimal system for the
- lexical representation of English words." Chomsky & Halle, S.P.E.
- Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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