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Andreas Pirklbauer
andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 30 08:56:20 CET 2020
> Andreas:
>
> I think it is wise to stay with one compiler. I remember that the number of LOOP
> statements in the original Oberon System was small. The RETURN statements
> are a bigger issue for me because I use them quite often to exit the procedures.
> I have some bright ideas to implement, so work on B2 is unavoidable anyway.
> I am more worried about the rest of the V4 than about my own stuff which
> will evolve anyway.
>
> Thank you,
> Wojtek
If you do it in a single compiler, make sure to keep the features nicely separated,
e.g. via an option or something. Personally, I dislike LOOP, EXIT and RETURN in
the middle of a procedure, as they run counter to the idea of structured programming.
This is one of the reasons why I decided to not go back to the original Oberon-2 spec,
fully knowing that lots of legacy code will not compile anymore, i.e. one needs to refactor.
-ap
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