HELP POPDEFINEPROCEDURE John Williams, March 1986
Updated A.Sloman Jan 91
This facility is obsolete for the same reason as -popconstruct-. See
HELP * POPCONSTRUCT. There is an autoloadbale version in the library,
for the sake of backward compatibility.
See REF * OBSOLETE
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<boolean> -> popdefineprocedure;
This variable is local to POP11_COMP_STREAM, and is user-assignable. If
its value is FALSE (the default) then identifiers created by
*DEFINE are automatically declared to be of unrestricted type. If it
is TRUE (i.e. non-false) they are declared as "procedure" type
identifiers.
Since it is local to the compiler, it cannot usefully be assigned to in
the users 'init.p' by an ordinary assignment. To change its global
default value in 'init.p' use set_global_valof, e.g.
set_global_valof(true, "popdefineprocedure");
A similar strategy may be used for POPDEFINECONSTANT
The interpretation of these variables is determined by a user-definable
procedure POP11_DEFINE_DECLARE, described in REF * POPCOMPILE.
See also HELP
*IDENTTYPE*POPDEFINECONSTANT
REF *POPCOMPILE
--- C.all/help/popdefineprocedure --------------------------------------
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