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Re: No forward_pro statement !!!! [message #4813]

Wed, 09 August 1995 00:00

rivers
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In article <40alhr$pv5@centre.univ-orleans.fr>, emmguyot@desiree.univ-orleans.fr (Emmanuel GUYOT) writes:
> I realized that there is a statement FORWARD_FUNCTION to
> declare a function before its definition but there is no
> FORWARD_PRO.
>
> This is all the most curious, isn't it ?

No, FORWARD_FUNCTION is needed to resolve the ambiguity of function references
vs array elements if a function has not already been defined.

There is no ambiguity in the syntax of procedure calls, so FORWARD_PRO is not
needed.

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