Re: Component Pascal wish list

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:17:04 -0500

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1. Multidimensional open array parameters. Just try the following in Component Pascal if you don't know at compile time how big the array size will be:

PROCEDURE SmoothImage( INOUT INTEGER TwoDimArray [ ] [ ] );
        BEGIN END SmoothImage;

I had to write it in pseudo-code, because as far as I know, IT'S COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE IN Component Pascal. However, the Oberon compiler included in the Native Oberon system handles this problem neatly.


2. Unsigned integers. You don't miss them until you need them. Most of you apparently don't need them, but the rest of the world uses them. Just try to do image processing without unsigned integers. Possible but darned cumbersome. I know unsigned integers are supposed to make the compiler more complex, but without them the complexity is shifted to every single program that requires them. I ask you, is it better to handle complexity once in the compiler, or many times in programs? When I asked this question some years ago, I was told that it was better to have compatibility with Java. Huh?

Rex Couture
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