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From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves)
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Subject: Strings in Pascal (was standard pascal)
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Date: 29 Jun 89 15:59:19 GMT
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In article <3182@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ags@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
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>Nobody mentioned UCSD Pascal, for a very good reason:  UCSD Pascal is as far
>removed from the standard as Turbo is, but in a slightly different direction.
I have a related question.  When people talk about Pascal-style
strings they describe the string type as it exists in UCSD/Turbo
Pascal where the length is kept in the first byte/word of the string.
Did UCSD invent this string representation?  I have been told that
strings are not a part of ANSI Pascal.  Are they a part of any other
standard or extended standard?
-thanks, david
;David Neves, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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