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From: woody@aurora.uucp (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo and Standard Pascal
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Date: 6 Jul 89 19:31:24 GMT
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In article <4822@freja.diku.dk> dat0@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Dat-0 undervisningsassistent) writes:
>texbell!utafll!john@cs.utexas.edu (John Baima) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>Right, you can do it, but you still can't do it the standard way. ("Oh there
>he goes again"). Can anyone tell me, why it wasn't implemented in such a
>way as to let standard programs compile without any trouble. 
>It can't be that hard to do.
>

i've been using Turbo since version 3.0 [still not very long] and i have always
been able to pass procedures and functions as parameters to other
procedures/functions.  and i learned to do it in UCSD PASCAL, it worked the
same for me in both languages.

refer to OH! PASCAL [author name escapes me] for more information.

-- woody
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