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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
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Subject: Re: Window Scrolling Problem
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Date: 12 Dec 89 13:29:22 GMT
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In article <5764@umd5.umd.edu> zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
>I don't know how to make Think C do this.  In MPW C I just put the keyword
>pascal into the routine declaration, like this example taken from an actual
>program:
>
>/* Called periodically when button is held down in scrolling arrrow.
> */
>
>pascal ScrollAction(ControlHandle hitctl,short part)

It's the same in Think C.  Of course, it should probably be

pascal void ScrollAction(.....

Aside: One of the irritating things about the pascal keyword in Think C is that
it is a storage class, which makes it difficult to declare a pointer to a
pascal function as a function argument.  You have to pretend it is a pointer
to a C function and use CallPascal.  In this case, the function to which 
you pass a pascal function has already been declared, so you don't have to
worry about it.  However, if you ever need to write routines using forms 
similar to toolbox routines and want to pass them pascal procedure, keep this
in mind.

>Private complaint: consistency of capitalization of proper names:
>
>pascal Boolean foo()
>^      ^
>Grump

I think that Boolean is capitalized to maintain consistency with IM, not that
IM is consistent (i.e. INTEGER vs. Integer).  "pascal" is an actual keyword,
so like all keywords in C, it is in lower case.  I once had a C which used
all lower case (Megamax), and it was much worse.

This is not to say that the capitalization conventions could not be
improved, only to say that if it be madness, yet there be method in it.

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