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From: texbell!utafll!john@cs.utexas.edu (John Baima)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Turbo and Standard Pascal
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Date: 5 Jul 89 22:51:32 GMT
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Turbo Pascal does (as of version 5.0) allow Procedures as parameters.
They have implemented a Procedure type which I believe goes beyond
"stansard" pascal. With the @ operator in version 4.0, it was easy to
pass procedures as parameters anyway.

One of the advantages of Borland's nonstandard Read/Write vs. Get/Put
is the ability to read or write any enumerated type. This is most
useful when one or more variables in a record are enumerated types. As
I remember "standard" Pascal in my distant past, one had to convert
an enumerated  type  to an ordinal type (often a byte or integer) and
then get/put that. That limitation is a real bother when using
records.


John Baima
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