[Oberon] Assignment to value parameters of pointer or procedure type

[Chris Burrows]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM August Karlstrom <fusionfile at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> For SYSTEM.VAL it says "scalar" and it's not clear to me why the wording
> is different here.
>
> IMHO it is to exclude BOOLEAN which is a "basic type" but not a "scalar
type".

That also leads to a plausible answer to your original question in this
discussion as to why "scalar type" was changed to "basic type" in Section
10.1 i.e. to allow for BOOLEAN value parameters.

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