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This article is from the FAQ, by with numerous contributions by others.

F03) How do I work around "Only pattern-declarations may appear in a fragment of category 'attributes'"?

In F02, we didn't get rid of the i, j, and r implementation attributes of f.
The reason is that it is not possible to do the most obvious, which would
have been the following:

fSource.bet:
   ORIGIN '...';
   BODY 'fBody'
   --- lib: attributes ---
   f: (# t: @text;
         <<SLOT fLib: attributes>>
      enter t[]
      <<SLOT fBody: dopart>>
      #)

fBody.bet:
   ORIGIN 'fSource'
   --- fLib: attributes ---
   i,j: @integer; r: @real
   --- fBody: dopart ---
   do  (* ... some code implementing f ... *)

since it is not allowed to specify reference attributes (static or dynamic)
in attribute slots.

Instead we have to use the following trick:

fSource.bet:
   ORIGIN '...';
   BODY 'fBody'
   --- lib: attributes ---
   f: (# t: @text;
        fPrivate: @<<SLOT fLib: descriptor>>
      enter t[]
      <<SLOT fBody: dopart>>
      #)

fBody.bet:
   ORIGIN 'fSource'
   --- fLib: descriptor ---
   (# i,j: @integer; r: @real #)
   --- fBody: dopart ---
   do  (* ... some code implementing f ... *)

and in (* ... some code implementing f ... *) we have to change all
references to i, j, and r to fPrivate.i, fPrivate.j, and fPrivate.r.

 

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