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From: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
Subject: "Recursion, need more stack space."
Date: 16 Jun 1997, 12:37:59

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> 
> First the good news: in c.l.p.b (the same subject as this mail), someone
> wrote:
> 
> "Anyway, I found this book in the library called "Programming Languages"
> by Herbert G.Mayor.
> In the book it has a program written in Algol-60 by Donald Knuth, which
> is highly recursive etc.etc, and it was written to separate the 'boy
> compilers' from the 'man compilers'.
> The book states, that modern computers are able to run the program with
> ease."
> 
> Guess what: the program compiled and ran fine with gpc, but couldn't
> possibly compile with BP. :-)
> 
:-) :-)  Pathetic 64K limits :-) :-)


[..]

> Another little bug I just found:
> 
> program x;
> var x:real value 0; {"initial value is of wrong type}
> begin
> end.


It's not a bug, I believe.

>From ISO 10206:1990, sec 6.1.7:

unsigned-rel = digit-sequence `.' fractional-part [ `e' scale factor ]
               | digits-sequence `e' scale factor


I see a simular definition in my Turbo pascal Programmer's Guide, so
BP should not accept it either.

Try to make it "0.0" or "0e0"

JanJaap

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