<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Andreas Pirklbauer wrote:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The Oberon star marker (being a large asterisk) is certainly a use case for this symbol in Oberon.<br class="">So you found one more! Procedures that make use of * don't count. <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Well, an asterisk "*" in the textual parameter list of a command is supposed to refer to the currently marked viewer. See ch.3.4 Toolboxes.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Yes! That's another one.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>One to go. I must say that this last one is not implemented in Oberon System V5 because it has no browser, but is in various other Oberons, and is part of the Oakwood Guidelines.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The list (nearly complete):</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""><span class="">1. integer multiplication operator</span><br class=""><span class="">2. real multiplication operator</span><br class=""><span class="">3. set intersection operator</span><br class=""><span class="">4. export mark</span><br class=""><span class="">5. interrupt procedure</span><br class=""><span class="">6. part of comment bracket</span><br class=""><span class="">7. stand-alone MODULE*</span><br class=""><span class="">8. wildcard character on the command line</span><br class=""><span class="">9. the star marker for a viewer</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""><span class="">10. * </span>in the parameter list of a command, </font><font face="Menlo" size="2" class="">meaning </font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: small;" class=""> "take input from the currently marked viewer"</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class="">11. ...</font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""><span class="">12. </span><font class="">M* denotes the hierarchy consisting of M itself </font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" size="2" class=""><font class=""> and of all directly and indirectly imported modules</font></font></div><div class=""><font class="" face="Menlo" size="2"><br class=""></font></div></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>