Re: NEW & extending redefinition

[hartmut Goebel <hartmut@oberon.nbg.sub.org>]

acken (acken@informatik.uni-kl.de) schrieb:

 >  NEW (v, 0)
 >
 >Should this trigger a run-time check?  Without pathological 0-length

Yes! I doubt, a programmer want's to allocate zero bytes length: why then
allocate at all?

 >b) Should a failed NEW() return NIL or trigger a run-time check?  Most

Run-time error! NEW() is defined to return the address of the heap space.
Return of NIL has been elimiated in the Report somewhen.

 >The question is how this should be incorporated into OOC.  I suggest

Even when I'm new on the list: are you writing a compiler or designing a
language? I thought the first, so the answer is obvious.

+++hartmut