Re: [BLACKBOX] BlackBox 1.6 final version?

From: [at]} <Chris>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:14:40 +0930

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Wojtek Skulski
>Sent: Tuesday, 30 June 2009 4:42 AM
>To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] BlackBox 1.6 final version?
>
>
>Not supporting operator overloading or COMPLEX is making the
>language look less trendy. But is it necessarily bad?
>I am less than sure.
>

ETH were less than sure as well. In the 'Oakwood Guidelines for Oberon-2
Compiler Developers' it says "the omission of COMPLEX data types from Oberon
was a deliberate ETH design decision and not an oversight." In Section
3.3.3. Josef Templ lists ten reasons against introducing COMPLEX.

Regards,
Chris Burrows

CFB Software
Armaide v2.0: ARM Oberon-07 Development System
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/armaide

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