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- From: robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: C to Modula2 converter?
- Message-ID: <C0qHLI.F7L@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 09:12:53 GMT
- References: <36762.2B50C7C3@puddle.fidonet.org> <1993Jan11.081026.25261@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Organization: a gora
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- In article <1993Jan11.081026.25261@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> marti@nugget.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti) writes:
- >In article <36762.2B50C7C3@puddle.fidonet.org>,
- >Robert.Barton@p0.f6.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Barton) writes:
- >|> A C to Modula-2 converter is not possible, since Modula-2 does
- >|> not support set complement, structured constants, or null
- >|> procedure variables.
- >
- >Not possible is a bit strongly worded, considering that I can think
- >of solutions to all three problems.
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- The lack of structured constants can be worked around to an extent
- by using variables and a long sequence of assignments. There are
- no substitutes for the other two problems, though.
-