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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Oberon Question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.214457.19642@massey.ac.nz>
- From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 21:44:57 GMT
- References: <z#pml+=.thomp@netcom.com>
- Organization: Massey University
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- In article <z#pml+=.thomp@netcom.com>, thomp@netcom.com (Thom Philabaum) writes:
- >
- > Does Oberon support ennumerated types as in Pascal/Modula? In other words,
- > can you still say,
- >
- > TYPE
- > myColors : (red, green, purple);
- >
- > ????
- No, it doesn't. There are reasons to do with type extensions which I am not
- qualified to answer.
- >
- > If not, is there something that provides similar functionality?
- > Thanks...
-
- Yes, you can use integer types.
- CONST red=0; green=1; purple=2;
- See the MODULA2 to OBERON section in the manual.
- >
- > Oh yeah, If anybody at ETH is readin this: I BEG you to support non-68030
- > macs (specifically, MacPlus/Powerbooks 100/140). One of the boasts about
- > Oberon is that is doesn't require oodles of memory/diskspace and yet you
- > can't run it on what would seem to be sufficiently powerful machines.
- >
- > Anyway, that's my two cents....
- >
- I would enthusiastically concur with that. And what about my AT - it
- can use protected mode and could address up to 20Mb if I had it. Why
- does everyone only support 386's these days?
-