Bob, From: Bob Walkden <bob@web-options.com> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 18:53:41 +0100
... control language called SCL, based on Algol 68. With it you were able to declare 'currencies', which were shorthands for path strings, and indeed files.
So if you had two directories say on different disk packs, one production, one dev, you wrote something like select x = ed1234.folder, y = ed4321, and referred to files as *x.name, *y.folder.name, or simply *x, and so on.
Interesting. Hypothetically, SCL currencies could have inspired the file system prefix in Native Oberon. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/betadocu.html#OFS Thanks, ... Lyall E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca