[Oberon] Easter eggs in Oberon

Joerg joerg.straube at iaeth.ch
Sun Apr 12 06:18:45 CEST 2020


Here two symbols that come to my mind:

7 uses cases of END:
RECORD, IF,  CASE, WHILE, FOR, procedure, module

9 use cases of ;
module, import, const, type, fieldlist, var, proceduredecl, formalparam, statementseq

Jörg

> Am 12.04.2020 um 00:47 schrieb Hans Klaver <hklaver at dds.nl>:
> 
> *Easter eggs* (sort of) in Oberon.
> 
> 
> There is one operator/symbol that Niklaus Wirth seems to be particularly fond of, because in Oberon it fulfils no less than 9 different uses. 
> 
> Question 1. Do you know which operator/symbol is meant?
> 
> Question 2. Can you name at least 8 different uses for this symbol? 
> 
> Extra credits if you can find the 9th use, which is a bit extraneous, but can be found in the book Project Oberon.
> 
> 
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