[Oberon] Clarifying type compatibility in Oberon-07

Jörg joerg.straube at iaeth.ch
Thu Oct 5 14:28:24 CEST 2017


    An expression e of type Te is assignment compatible with a variable v of 
    type Tv if one of the following conditions hold:
    1. Te and Tv are the same type;
    *2. Te and Tv are different integer types;
    3. Te and Tv are record types and Te is an extension of Tv and the 
    dynamic type of v is Tv ;
    4. Te and Tv are pointer types and Te is an extension of Tv;
    5. Tv is a pointer or a procedure type and e is NIL;
    6. Tv is ARRAY n OF CHAR, e is a string constant with m characters, and 
    m < n;
    *7. Te and Tv are procedure types whose formal parameter lists match;
    *8. Tv is CHAR and e is a single-character string constant;
    *9. Tv is an array type and Te is an open array type with the same 
    element types as Tv.
    
I can agree on 2, 8 and 9. Why do you want to change the original wording of 7.

br
Jörg





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