[Oberon] COPY() removing

[Stéphane Aulery]

Le 13/10/2016 à 15:05, Chris Burrows a écrit :
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
>> Stéphane Aulery
>> Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2016 9:51 PM
>> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>> Subject: [Oberon] Fwd: A little weakness of operators syntax and
>> COPY() removing
>>
>>
>> I find also a possible minor error in
>>
>> https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf
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>> page 15.
>>
>> But COPY have been removed according to
>>
>> https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/OberonAtAGlance.pdf
>>
>> for the whole language or only outside SYSTEM module?
>>
>
> This is not an error in the report. "Oberon at a glance" could be expanded perhaps. COPY and SYSTEM.COPY are two different functions:
>
> 1. The Standard Procedure COPY that was removed used to be defined as:
>
>   [...]
>
> 2. The new SYSTEM procedure SYSTEM.COPY has a different purpose.
>
>   [...]

Ok, understood.

I want to start using the Oberon language (for developing databases 
app.) so I'm going to fall in all matters beginners. :-)
	
Thanks Chris.

-- 
Stéphane Aulery