From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project
Date: 11 Feb 2002 11:25:10 -0600
Date: 2002-02-11T11:25:10-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91eyiCGaQCl5@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uzo2geyyf.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov
In article <uzo2geyyf.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
>> Page 11 of the March 2002 MSDN magazine from Microsoft announces
>> TMT Development Corporation's Pascal compiler for .NET. It says the
>> compiler "can accept programs in standard Pascal (except for some unsafe
>> features, such as records with variants, which are allowed if variants
>> aren't overlapped)".
>
> Note that this says that non-overlapped variants are ok. Ada only
> allows non-overlapped variants.
Is this a change for Ada95 ?
I believe I recall using overlapped variants in VAX/DEC/Compaq Ada (83).
Or do I have a different understanding of the word "overlapped" ?
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-09 23:31 Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-10 5:26 ` Britt Snodgrass
2002-02-11 16:59 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-11 17:25 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-02-11 17:34 ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-11 18:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-11 19:20 ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-11 19:31 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-02-12 2:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-12 3:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-12 16:33 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-12 19:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-13 2:00 ` Richard Riehle
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