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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: mail delivery error
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov11194023@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 19:40:23 GMT
- References: <9211091022.A01745@MAIL.CASI.NASA.GOV>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: thutt@MAIL.CASI.NASA.GOV's message of 9 Nov 92 15:22:39 GMT
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- In article <9211091022.A01745@MAIL.CASI.NASA.GOV> thutt@MAIL.CASI.NASA.GOV (thutt) writes:
-
- Oberon removes all of the extraneous features of Modula-2, cleans up the
- language
- [deleted]
-
- 1) Removal of superfluous items:
- [deleted]
- The SET type is now equivalent to the M-2 BITSET. It is of
- an implementation dependant size (usually at least 32 bits).
-
- If you ask me (and of course you didn't :-), SET should have been
- dropped. What is the point of having a BITSET (and why isn't it
- called that if that is what it is?) with an implementation defined
- size? Why is this any better than having a MODULE based around BIT
- ... etc. which achieves the same effect? (Also why is there no
- operation to directly set a bit?) If your wondering what the
- difference is in the end: nothing much as far as functionallity goes,
- the difference is by using a modules, superfluous items is kept out of
- the syntax.
-
- bevan
-