Re: External (C++) interfaces

[Mike Griebling <grieblm@trt.allied.com>]

> Mike Griebling wrote:
> 
> > I'm not so sure that structured return values are a language extension
> > since assignments of structured types are allowed and the language report
> > doesn't disallow structured return values anywhere that I could see.  I
> > think it's just a compiler implementation issue and possibly a ETH
> > defacto standard to NOT allow structured returns.
> 
> Sorry, but it *is* a language restriction. Oberon-2 Report, chapter 10.1,
> last sentence of the first paragraph:
> 
>   "The result type of a procedure can be neither a record nor an array."
> 
> That's not to say the language restriction did not arise because ETH didn't
> want to complicate *their* compilers.
> 
> Frank

Thanks for the correction.  It's good to know we have an Oberon language
lawyer in our midst. :-)

Michael G.