<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> On </span><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sun Oct 8 11:16:30 CEST 2017 Douglas G Danforth wrote:</span></font><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> </span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> Folks,
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> The topic "Clarifying type compatibility in Oberon-07" has died!
> It died 50 posts ago! Its time to pick a new "significant" topic.
> Move on, move on …
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> -Doug Danforth</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">I think it’s a discussion absolutely worth having - despite the fact that</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">it has </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">been around for decades. It has been </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">discussed </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">in the </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Algol days,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">then of course in the Pascal and Modula days, and now again with </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">Oberon.</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">The fact that </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">this important question </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">has never been convincingly </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">settled</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">once and for good .. probably means that </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">we don’t fully </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">understand it yet.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">the end, the actual choice in a particular </span><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">implementation is always also</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">influenced by programming experience over an extended period of time, so</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">there (probably) is also an element of art to it, when it comes down to</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">the question/challenge of making a sensible choice. The history of the</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">languages mentioned above shows a continued effort to *refine* that choice.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">PS: If you do </span></font><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">have </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">convincing arguments either way, I am a happy taker :-)</span></div></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">-AP</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></body></html>