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From: damm@diku.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: arrays
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.152036.1161@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 20 Jun 91 15:20:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.175558.1667@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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avila@swinger.csd.sgi.com (Richard Avila) writes:

>In pascal on the SGI box a user wanted to create
>an array type such that at compile time the
>bounds ( or size of the array ) is not known.

>Then at runtime the bounds can be assigned
>and the variable is created.

>In Ada this is call an unconstrained array.
>Does our Pascal have anything like this?

No.


Subject: Re: arrays
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References: <1991Jun18.175558.1667@odin.corp.sgi.com>

avila@swinger.csd.sgi.com (Richard Avila) writes:

>In pascal on the SGI box a user wanted to create
>an array type such that at compile time the
>bounds ( or size of the array ) is not known.

>Then at runtime the bounds can be assigned
>and the variable is created.

>In Ada this is call an unconstrained array.
>Does our Pascal have anything like this?

No.

You have to create this by yourself using
pointers, since pointers are the only dynamic
types in pascal. 

Mind you: I'm talking standard-Pascal. If you
do not care about portability some compiler
might support a like feature.
-- 
Kristian Damm Jensen (damm@freja.diku.dk)
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