Re: function as a pointer.

Chris Burrows wrote:
> "scott moore" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
>> This aside, let's go back to WWWD (What Would Wirth Do). The basis
>> of Wirth design philosophy is that we don't include language
>> features unless there is no other way to easily accomplish the
>> same result without it.
> 
> I agree with your observations. However, it is not necessary to try
> to second-guess WWWD to back these up. Instead, consider WDWD (What
> Did Wirth Do).
> 
> 1. In the function examples in the Pascal User Manual and Re****t,
> local variables are used, even when strictly unnecessary, and
> assigned to the function result immediately prior to termination.

Unnecessary.  The following example works quite nicely:

FUNCTION itworked(param : integer) : boolean;

   BEGIN 
   itworked := false; (* default *)
   IF param > threshold1 THEN itworked := true
   ELSE IF param > 0 THEN itworked := itworked(10 * param + 10);
   END;

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