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From: Flemming Gram Christensen <gram@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Re: Plowing on :-)
Date: 02 Jun 2000 11:37:57 +0200
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Atle <trollet@skynet.be> writes:

> Although I don't have a Beta-book yet, I try to do some assignments from a file
> 
> ~/beta/doc/teaching/teaching-22.html
> 
> At assignment nr. 6, we are suppose to analyze the following program and trace its allocations.
> I reproduce the program under, to avoid looking it up.
> 

Thanks.

> (# Ptn: (# i: @integer;
>            t: @text
>         enter (i, t)
>         do ' ' -> t.put;
>            i -> t.putInt
>         exit t[]
>         #);
>    j: @integer;
>    s: @text;
>    p: @Pth
> do (* first sequence *)
>    17 -> j;
>    's:' -> s;
>    (j,s) -> p;
>    p -> putline;
> 
>    (* second sequence *)
>    17 -> j;
>    's:' -> s;
>    (j,s) -> &Ptn;
>    p -> putline
> #)
> 
> The program will not compile, unfortunately, I am not yet familiar enough with the syntax to fix it.

The problem lies in a type in the html file. The last attribute declaration should look like:

  p:@ptn;

and not:
  
  p:@pth;
       ^
       ^

Regards
/Flemming Gram Christensen