On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:36:43 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: >>> >>> I added BREAK, CONTINUE, RETURN, MODULE, LOCAL and STATIC; >>> this was in the years from 2011 to 2016. No more need since. >>> >> I've done many of these as predefined quasi-identifiers, similar to Pascal's >> predefined standard types. A programmer could choose to declare CONTINUE >> as an identifier, overriding its predefined meaning within the block >> containing >> the declaration. > >would not work with CONTINUE, because CONTINUE in my compiler >is a real reserved word meant for loop control (same as in C, ITERATE in PL/1), >and it cannot be overridden by a variable or type definition. > >If you have a program that uses CONTINUE as identifier for other things, >you need to do a global change, if you want to use my compiler. > Ah, but that's in your compiler. In "my" (actually my employer's) compiler, we started from another (almost) free compiler having almost no extensions beyond the IEEE standard. I made CONTINUE an identifier with the peculiar semantic in order not to break standard programs.
>The correct syntax, BTW, would be >type integer = -32768 .. 32767; > Thanks. It's been a long time. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
