[Oberon] Re (4): A path variable for OLR?

[peter at easthope.ca]

Bob,

From:	Bob Walkden <bob at web-options.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2016 18:53:41 +0100
> ... control language called SCL, based on 
> Algol 68. With it you were able to declare 'currencies', which were 
> shorthands for path strings, and indeed files. 
> 
> So if you had two directories say on different disk packs, one 
> production, one dev, you wrote something like select x = 
> ed1234.folder, y = ed4321, and referred to files as *x.name, 
> *y.folder.name, or simply *x, and so on.

Interesting.  Hypothetically, SCL currencies could 
have inspired the file system prefix in Native Oberon.
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/betadocu.html#OFS

Thanks,             ... Lyall E.

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