Re: Component Pascal wish list

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:34:57 -0500

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        Thanks, Juan and Bernhard. (Apologies if I misspelled your name. I
don't have the original message here.) You are right on both counts.

        I don't know how I missed it, but Component Pascal does indeed have
multidimensional open array parameters. It's all there in the manual, most
prominently in the sentence "Arrays declared without length are called open
arrays. They are restricted to pointer base types (see 6.4), element types
of open array types, and formal parameter types (see 10.1)."
Multidimensional open array parameters are not actually mentioned; but they
are clearly allowed, according to the documentation, and both your programs
have proven it.

        You are also right about Fortran lacking unsigned integers. I had
gotten so used to them that I forgot. That doesn't help when you are trying
to read a file of unsigned integers, but I have no doubt that Component
Pascal has some typecasting method of reading such files.

        My opinion of Component Pascal has just gone up by a couple of notches.

Sincerely,
Rex Couture

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