17 Feb
2025
17 Feb
'25
2:27 p.m.
On 16 Feb 2025 18:00:35 -0700,ben
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca <mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>> wrote:
I have trouble understanding the fine points of accessing a local
variable in Algol with a display. Books tend to spend more time
on the evils of a dangling else, and gloss over the run time action of
a display.
Have a good example or reference book I can find free on line.
The original book on that subject is ALGOL 60 Implementation by B. Randell and L. J.
Russell. It’s available here with permission from the copyright holder:
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol60impl/#ALGOL_60_I…