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Subject: Re: Runtime dimensioning and Pascal
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Date: 13 Nov 89 03:31:57 GMT
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In article <6422@merlin.usc.edu>, ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
> 
> On this issue, I'm squarely on the side of Borland.  Standard Pascal
> is a reasonably crippled creature: no hooks for seperate compilation,
> no breakouts from strong typing, stupid file handling, etc. .....

There's no doubt that TP is a fine product.  The original question was
how to handle arrays of different sizes.  Bottom line is that if you're
using the "crippled" standard Pascal, it's no problem; in TP, you do some
sort of work-around.  Conformant arrays were established as part of the
ANSI/ISO draft standard long before Borland released their first CP/M
compiler.  You'd think they'd have caught up by now.  It's a constant
problem for programmers, and conformant arrays aren't even that difficult
to implement.  On the other hand, TP 5.5's object extensions are so
cumbersome that maybe it is just a case of lazy programming.

Kevin Weiner   Lehigh University Computing Center