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Dear Colleagues,
First, many thanks for nice simple examples, useful for teaching.
I would like to discuss the following simplification of our language:
would it not be good to banish EXTENSIBLE types altogether?
Especially that supercalls are to be eliminated.
This would be somewhat at variance with the original Oberon,
but safer (extension only when explicitly allowed by the component author),
and, in my experience, fully sufficient.
It would be one less option to waste time pondering,
and a simpler compiler.
As a first step, to mark this feature in red in the Language Report, as a feature to be eliminated along with supercalls.
Any opinions?
Cheers
Fyodor Tkachov
http://cern.ch/oberon.day/
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