[Oberon] Treatment of parameter-less procedure type in ORP.Mod.txt

[Srinivas Nayak]

Ahhh...
New() is the saviour then...


With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

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On 07/09/2016 08:04 PM, Chris Burrows wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
>> Srinivas Nayak
>> Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2016 10:26 PM
>> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>> Subject: [Oberon] Treatment of parameter-less procedure type in
>> ORP.Mod.txt
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I think ORP.Mod.txt missed to make
>> ptype.nofpar := 0; in PROCEDURE ProcedureType() for parameter-less
>> procedure types...
>>
>> Such as:
>>
>>       TYPE Command* = PROCEDURE;
>> BEGIN
>>       body   (*initialize module*)
>> END
>>
>>
>> Not sure how Oberon compiler manages to get nofpar = 0!
>> Or, I am missing it somewhere?
>> Or, is there a chance of any memory chunk pre-initialized to 0 in
>> Oberon?
>>
>
> ptype is a pointer variable of type ORB.Type. Pointer variables are
> automatically initialised to zero when created using NEW. This
> initialisation is performed by the procedure Kernel.New.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
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