Modula2's godawful IO.

[Robert Redford]

In article <2608 at bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> Actually, the story I hear is that WriteCard was originally meant
> (back when Wirth was developing languages on an old CDC machine)
> to punch a card.  Nostalgia being what it is, WriteCard now
> prints unsigned integers.

     WriteCard stands for WriteCardinal. There is a standard library module
     CardinalIO that deals with the IO of cardinal numbers. In fact there is
     a predefined data type CARDINAL. It has nothing to do with cards.


                                              ..Uday