Component Pascal wish list

From: [at]} <robert.d.campbell{>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:36:53 +0000 (GMT)

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It is nearly a year since BlackBox 1.4 was officially released.
Is it time to start speculating on what might be in 1.5?

I'm afraid that unsigned numerics is not high on my list. While
I missed them when switching from Modula II, I found that the Oberon/L
type-safe (1-way) hierarchy WAS a simplification, and the loss of efficiency
was (for me) less of an issue.

For mucking around with hardware registers would not 1-byte & 2-byte SETs not
be safer abstractions than 8-bit numbers?

I'd ask (at the language level) for the operators <, <=, etc to be extended
to SET types to mean set inclusion and strict set inclusion. This is a
simplification in that it makes the instruction set more orthogonal, and would
have no backward compatibility problems.

Any other suggestions ?


Regards

Robert Campbell


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