[e-lang] Why aren't guards allowed on forward declarations?

[David Hopwood]

Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 16:20, David Hopwood wrote:
>>    [silly, untested code]
>>    ...
>>    def succeeded :boolean
> 
> (Syntactic note: Forward declarations may not have guards.)

Any good reason for this? It seems as though the semantics would be clear.

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David Hopwood <david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk>