Re: Beginners question: Abstract record extension

From: [at]} <robert.d.campbell{>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:33:13 +0000 (GMT)

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Juan

Thanks for your comment. Sorry for being too
lazy to test it myself.

I wonder why they use a $ in the Language
Reference (see penultimate line of section 8)...


Cheers

Robert


> Hello Robert,
>
> > In the code below I'm never quite sure what
> >
> > x.key = y.key
> >
> > does.
> > Does it compare all 11 CHARs, or only up to the 0X?
>
> Only up to the 0X. I have done a test module:
>
> MODULE test;
>
> IMPORT StdLog;
>
> PROCEDURE main*;
> VAR
> a,b: ARRAY 5 OF CHAR;
> BEGIN
> a:="Hi!";
> b:="Hi!";
> b[LEN(a$)+1]:="t";
> a[LEN(a$)+1]:="j";
> StdLog.Bool(a=b);
> END main;
>
> END test.
>
> and in the logs appears $TRUE.
>
> Regards,
> Juan Antonio


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