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From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 26 Mar 2008 12:18:23
Message: <47ea855f@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

>> (Does Pascal count as "module" too?)
> 
> No.  :-)  One of the fundamental features of modules is information 
> hiding. You can't hide the types in a Pascal program.  At least, not 
> standard pascal.

Yeah, this is the flaw. Pascal allows you to hide subroutines, but not 
data structure details. Haskell does not have this unfortunate flaw. :-)

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