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From: bobd@dshovax.UUCP (Bob Dietrich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How to get Ada private types in C
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 20:25:50 EST
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In article <513@ci-dandelion.UUCP> congdon@ci-dandelion.UUCP (Robert M. Congdon)
writes:
>
>Pascal allows usage of a pointer types in type definitions before the
>base type of the pointer type has been defined for self-referential
>types as well.  In fact, I think that this is the only example of
>'usage before definition' in Standard Pascal (where even labels have to
>be pre-defined!).
>
>-- 
>Robert M. Congdon    UUCP: {talcott,vaxine,mit-eddie}!ci-dandelion!congdon
>Cognition, Inc.      PHONE: (617) 667-4800
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Pascal also allows another case (effectively): program parameters appear in
the program heading before their definition as variables. In addition,
Extended Pascal adds the identifiers that are exported as constituents of
a module interface.

				Bob Dietrich
				Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon
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