7.13 Chapter Summary
This chapter covered these topics:
- more technical details about Strings and how to use them
- how to design menus for text-based interfaces
- some elementary encryption techniques
- the statistical functions mean, variance and standard deviation
- techniques for computing the latter by accumulating data
- random number generation
- a technique for multiplying cardinals and avoiding overflow
- a little about operations on long whole numbers
- some information about matrices and operations on them
- applications of Modula-2 to matrices and vectors
It included discussion of the following Modula-2 built-ins:
| Reserved Words | Standard Identifier |
|---|
| <none> | LENGTH |
Reserved Symbols
+ (concatenation on literals)
C (octal character)
Library Items
- From Strings:
Length, Assign, Extract, Delete, Insert, Replace, Append, Concat, CanAssignAll, CanInsertAll, CanReplaceAll, CanAppendAll, CanConcatAll, CompareResults, Compare, Equal, FindNext, FindPrev, FindDiff, Capitalize.
- From SYSTEM:
- From Events (Mac specific):
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