Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!olm From: olm@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Lehrmann Madsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Part Objects Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:28:13 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4l3npd$7on@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk> References: <4ktprf$qq6@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: clematis.daimi.aau.dk Thus spake zardi@margot.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ahmed Zardi): >Ole. Lehrmann Madsen and Birger Moeller-Pedersen wrote in the paper >"Part Objects and Their Location" section 7.1 (Access to Attributes - >simple Renaming of Attributes) >"In BETA an attribute may in gerneral renamed using the following > construct > : > This facility can be used to "lift" the attributes of part objects > to beome attributes of the containing object." >In the actual version 5.0(2) of the BETA compile for SUN-4 >it is not possible to express renaming. >Is there or there will be a construct for (or a possibilty of) renaming in BETA?. Renaming of attributes is not part of the current definition of BETA, and there are no immediate plans for adding renaming. The above paper discusses possible extensions to BETA. Some experiments have been made in a non-public version of the BETA compiler, but this version has not been kept up-to-date. Renaming may be supported in a future version of BETA, but there are currently no decisions about this. ---olm >Regards, >A. Zardi >_____________________________________________________________________________ >University of Dortmund Phone: (+49) 231 755 4393 >Geschossbau V/ Room 512 Fax : (+49) 231 755 4730 >Compus Sued Email: zardi@ls4.informatik.uni-dortmund.de >August-Schmidt-Strasse 12 Privat: zardi@sousse.ruhr.de >D-44221 Dortmund WWW : http://ls4-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/MA/zardi/pie.html >_____________________________________________________________________________