[Oberon] Exporting pointers

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Srinivas Nayak
> Sent: Thursday, 21 December 2017 4:21 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: [Oberon] Exporting pointers
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Looks like the current RISC-5 Oberon7 compiler allows only RECORDs to
> be exported, although language says a pointer type can also be
> exported. I see export number only incremented in case of RECORD type
> in ORP.Mod.
> 
> Kindly let me know if I am mistaken.
> 

There must be some misunderstanding. Look at the Project Oberon source code
for examples. You shouldn't have to look very far - I counted about a couple
of dozen exported pointer types in fifteen different modules. There are nine
in Graphics.Mod alone. 

At the risk of stating the obvious, any other type (not just RECORDs or
POINTERs TO RECORDs), can be exported as well.

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5