[Info-vax] $sndopr() and dsc64$descriptor

[John Reagan]

On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 3:55:50 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/12/2021 3:51 PM, Dave Froble wrote: 
> > On 3/12/2021 10:09 AM, John Reagan wrote: 
> >> For those of you keeping score at home, I checked the sources 
> >> (Macro-32) and it seems to only deal with 32-bit descriptors. Since 
> >> the $SND* services use descriptors to describe non-strings, the 
> >> internal consumers would also need to handle 64-bit addresses and/or 
> >> lengths > 64K. I guess it is the 64-bit addresses that is the "most 
> >> common" request (ie, this thread). I think we can deliver this 
> >> change at the same time we ship object-oriented BASIC. 
> > 
> > And re-written in Basic, right John? 
> > 
> > :-)
> And don't mock OO basic. 
> 
> I think OOification of Basic and Pascal would make a lot more sense 
> than Cobol and Fortran. 
> 
> Arne
Sure.  Delphi/Turbo Pascal had some features.  The Pascal committee actually wrote a technical addendum to the standard specifying an OO system.  It was a "single inheritance plus mixins" to help simplify the implementation.  Of course, nobody implemented such a thing but it kept us entertained back when we had real meetings.