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From: damm@diku.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: What does (.0.) means?
Keywords: notation, indexing
Message-ID: <1991May5.110240.26135@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 5 May 91 11:02:40 GMT
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djakman@fwi.uva.nl (Kemal Djakman  -- I89) writes:

>What interest me here is the notation itself.  Is the use of "(." and ".)"
>just a synonym for "[" and "]" ?  Like the two known notations for comment?
>Is it defined in the standard or specific to Turbo Pascal?

Yes, the notation is a synomym ofr (. .). 
And Yes, it is standard.
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Kristian Damm Jensen (damm@freja.diku.dk)
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