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Front page claims there's a Pascal dining philosopher's implementation on the Wikipedia page. Except there isn't. There's a link to the article about Rosetta Code. After following that link, and then clicking around some more, I still haven't found this Pascal version to compare....

Anyway, the reason I ask is because I wanted to know what this line does:

    =;


That line has no counterpart outside of ANI. At first I thought it was some kind of guard or synchronisation point, but according to the Yacc grammar, it just separates “instructors” from “outstructors”[1]. Like the rest of the syntax, it’s not terribly clear at first glance.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/anic/source/browse/src/parserGramma...


So much for simpler than sh...





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