Re: Re: New Book: The School of Niklaus Wirth

jsvendsen@bergen.frisurf.no (jsvendsen)
7 Nov 2000 13:06:48 -0500

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From: jsvendsen@bergen.frisurf.no (jsvendsen)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Nov 2000 13:06:48 -0500
Organization: Nextra Public Access
References: 00-10-227 00-11-019 00-11-024 00-11-046
Keywords: design, OOP

On 5 Nov 2000 20:53:01 -0500, Orlando Llanes <ollanes@pobox.com> wrote:
>they were not initialized). Also, why on Earth would anyone want
>multiple constructors or multiple destructors? Generally speaking,


To Initialize Objects With Different Basic Features. Can Be Moderately
Useful. Java Also Does This.


>Pascal is strict on type checking which does not allow for
>overloading. One more Pascal pet peeve, why is there no unsigned
>integer (one of my biggest pet peeves)?


In 16-Bit Turbo Pascal 7.0 The Unsigned Int Was Called Word.


In ObjPas I Have No Idea, But I Find It Strange That It Would Have Been
De-Implemented From The Language.


(After A Short Trip Into The Freepascal Documentation It Appears That
  32bit Unsigned Ints Are Called "Cardinal" And 64bit "QWord")


jon svendsen


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