POINTER TO type

[DGDanforth]

On the Oberon mailing list Jorg Straube mentioned

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TYPE MemoryMapped = POINTER TO INTEGER;

in the context (I believe) of Oberon-7.

I would dearly love to have that capability in Component Pascal.

-Doug

[DGDanforth]

Ah,
Here is what Chris Burrows wrote with regard to that issue

It is not allowed in Oberon-07 based systems either e.g. Project Oberon
2013. Oberon-07 is more strict than Component Pascal as it limits the use of
pointer variables to record types. Pointers to arrays are not supported.

My wishful thinking remains. I would like to have

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TYPE myType = POINTER TO type

where type is any of the basic Component Pascal types.