[Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.

Douglas G Danforth danforth at greenwoodfarm.com
Tue Nov 8 07:59:48 CET 2016


On 11/7/2016 6:46 PM, Lars wrote:
> I have to work with ComponentPascal and blackbox more, to understand it,
> but would be interesting to know the design decisions why they did not
> copy Delphi's system where information is often passed in as a procedure
> parameter which can be inspected and dealt with without resorting to
> globals.  I may be misunderstanding and blackbox may not be using globals
> as I think.. again I have to try it out more to see.
" information is often passed in as a procedure parameter "
How many parameters in the procedure?  0, 1, 2, ...?
The procedure to which a BlackBox button is linked can access an arbitrary
number of variables which reside within its module or in any module
that exported the variable.  That is very powerful.

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