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That is a pity - I would have found it useful. As far as I understand it's the assignment compatibility between strings and character arrays that allows a string to be passed to a procedure expecting a character array (even though no copying of characters take place). So if character variables were...

Maybe so in the 2008 version but not any more. Consider the following valid Oberon-07 (2011) statements: Your example only shows the assignment compatibility between single-character strings and CHAR and between strings and character arrays. Both "X" and "XX" are still just strings. You previously ...

I beg to differ in this case. The expression "C" is a string and nothing else - it is a central property of Oberon-07 that each literal constant (and expression) has a unique and unambiguous type. The phrase "character constant" is not even mentioned in the Oberon-07/11 manual. Where in the manual d...

Another change is the removal of constant parameters. In Oberon-07/11 non-scalar value parameters can not be assigned to and are passed as constant references. This is a great move I think as the constant parameter was only introduced as an optimization feature. It is also interesting to note the as...