I guess you could make changes like that while keeping backward compatibility with older Oberon, but that's probably kind of a pain, no? I agree that such chang

I guess you could make changes like that while keeping backward compatibility with older Oberon, but that's probably kind of a pain, no? I agree that such changes would make Oberon more to my taste. Maybe what we really want would be semantically close to Oberon+ but abandoning Wirth's surface syntax. (You could still respect the design discipline of allowing a simple fast compiler.)