Re: Ada compiler in BASIC?

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <390f2850$1_1@excalibur.gbmtech.net>,
  "John Herro" <john@prousa.net> wrote:
> "Richard D Riehle" <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > I think it was in an early issue of Dr. Dobbs.
>      You're right.  It was in the January, March, May, and
July, 1983 issues
> of Dr. Dobbs Journal (issues 75, 77, 79, and 81).  It was a
*very* small
> subset of Ada - no types defined by the user (no records and
no enumeration
> types!), no packages, and the non-standard spelling "elseif."
However, it
> *was* a good demonstration of hiding; a variable in a
subprogram would
> properly hide a variable of the same name in its parent.


I am not sure this needs demonstration at this stage, good
or otherwise, seeing as all Algol-60 compilers for the last
forty years have implemented this well defined, and trivial
to implement semantics :-)


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