Further revision of Oberon-07

[augustk]

i would vote for the introduction of a predefined procedure for (compile-time) string concatenation. This function procedure (with a variable number of parameters) could be named UNION. With this minimal addition to the language all strings can be represented. Like kevinhely, I would also like to see the reintroduction of single quotes. The constant declaration in my previous example can then be written like this:

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path* = UNION('"', "C:\temp\", '"')

[kevinhely]

With single quotes, your code can be

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path* = '"C:\temp\"'

[augustk]

OK, you got me, but I am sure you get my point. With the compile-time concatenation procedure all strings can be represented, just as all representable booleans, numbers and sets can be denoted by constant literals. It is a matter of completeness.

[kevinhely]

Sure.

[cfbsoftware]

It is unfortunate that character array variables cannot be exported.

Export of record and array variables in read-only mode was implemented in v5.1 of Astrobe following the changes in revision Rev 1.10.2013 / 10.03.2014 of the Oberon Language Report.