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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:16:31 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-04-19, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-04-19, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As we can see here the 'length' should not be "uint16", but instead:
>> 	Range 0..2**14 {with a Size specification of 16 bits.}
>
> The problem is that the above lays out the on the wire structure, but
> says nothing about the valid length values other than in the surrounding
> text.
>

Just to clarify: "the above" refers to the uint16 in the struct from
the specification, not to your Range statement.

Simon.

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