Re: function as a pointer.

Chris Burrows wrote:

> However, on further investigation, I was mistaken, as that is OK. There
is 
> only a problem is if you tried to dereference a pointer function:
> 
> e.g. node := myfun()^.next
> 
> You have to do this in two steps:
> 
> temp := myfun();
> node := temp^.next;

Just to point out that Extended Pascal added the ability to have a 
function identified variable to make "myfun()^.next" legal (see sections 
6.5.1 (for the definition of variable-access) and 6.8.6.4 (for the 
definition of function-identified-variable))

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John Reagan
HP Pascal/{A|I}MACRO/COBOL for OpenVMS Project Leader
Hewlett-Packard Company