[Oberon] Portability.

[Jörg]

„Portable“ means that the module is coded in standard, normal Oberon programming language without using low level features provided by SYSTEM.

„Portable“ does not mean that the code is 1:1 portable between different versions of the Oberon language. (Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Oberon-07). If you take Out.Mod as an example, portng it from language version to language version is rather straight forward. But this is not a gven.

Jörg

> Am 20.01.2019 um 18:09 schrieb <peter at easthope.ca> <peter at easthope.ca>:
> 
> Many of the modules in S3 and A2 had the comment (** portable *) 
> following the module name.  The comment has been removed from some 
> more recent sources. Examples:
> Out in S3
> Out in LinuxA2 Generic, rev.8586  /usr/aos/source/Out.Mod
> https://trac.inf.ethz.ch/trac/lecturers/a2/browser/trunk/source/Oberon.Out.Mod  (rev.8667)
> 
> Portability is discussed in 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_portability .
> 
> Should "(** portable *)" still appear in an Oberon source?  Too 
> ambiguous to be helpful?
> 
> Thanks,                              ... Lyall E.
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