<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> > Except if you have an explicit answer by him</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> > that pointers must
point to named records.</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not really except that the change had been planned</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">for a while now. I remember this topic popped up every</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">now and then already in the </span></font><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Modula-2 days in the 80s,</span></pre><pre><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">when we writing compilers for </span><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">then-</span></font><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">current processors</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">at ETH.. without ever </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">settling on </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the question of whether</span></pre><pre><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">this should </span><span style="white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">merely stay an implementation restriction </span><span style="white-space: normal; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">or</span></pre><pre><span style="white-space: normal; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">(one </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;">day) become part of the official language </span><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal;">spec</span></font></pre><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="white-space: normal;">(at least I </span></font><span style="white-space: normal; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">have not seen it in </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;">any language specs..)</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;">I don’t it’s a particularly interesting question. One just</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;">needs to make a decision.</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;">Andreas</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; white-space: normal;"><br></span></pre></body></html>