5.10 Chapter Summary
This chapter covered these topics:
- abstract and transparent data types
- whole number, ordinal, and scalar types
- how to declare new variable types
- how to declare and use enumerated types
- subranges of ordinal and enumerated types
- new standard procedures and functions for ordinal types
- an introduction to the ARRAY OF CHAR as a string type
- the FOR structure for iterated loops
- nested loops
- arrays
- how to declare them
- how to assign them
- how to manipulate them
- how to pass them as parameters (including open arrays)
- multi-dimensional arrays
- how to declare them
- how to manipulate them
It included discussion of the following Modula-2 built-ins:
| Reserved Words | Standard Identifiers |
|---|
| ARRAY | HIGH |
| BY | ORD |
| FOR |
| OF |
| TO |
| TYPE |
| Symbols: |
|---|
| ( ) for enumerated type declarations |
| [ ] for subranges |
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