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From: 209507097@ucis.vill.edu (MCREE, JAMES F)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Pointers to procedures
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Date: 8 Apr 91 19:02:34 GMT
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	I been following the thread of calling procedures by pointers with a 
lot of interest recently.  Mostly because I have an application that is just 
begging for a solution like that.  However, the discussion and samples that I 
have seen (including those in the manual) deal with hardcoding procedure names 
into the program.  (ie. Proc[i] := Do_It_Procedure)  Is there a way of doing 
what my syntactically incorrect program below is trying to do?

Program Call_A_Variable_Procedure (Input,Output);
.
Var
    Proc_Name : Procedure;
.
.
Assorted necessary delcarations
.
Begin
.
.
Assorted code statements
.
.
Write ('Enter the name of a procedure to run: ');
Readln (Proc_Name);
Proc_Name;
.
.
End.


This is an example of a user-specified call to a procedure.  The user
specifies the procedure directly though.  Can this be done?

						Happy Coding!!!

						Jim.