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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: What Turbo Pascal extensions do you think are important?
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 02:04:14 EST
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Hi.  I'm putting together a Pascal interpreter for the IBM-PC that is
going to have some number of the Turbo Pascal extensions.  The question
is, what features are the most important to you?

As an interpreter, some stuff like interupt handling & inline assembler
are out.

How do you feel about:

	Absolute variables
	typename conversion functions - boolean(0)
	Mem, Port, MemW and PortW arrays
	File delete, rename etc. functions
	Funny control characters in the middle of strings 'abc'^g'def'
	Predefined device files con, trm, out, etc.
	inline machine code with operand offsets.
	Mark/Release
	Untyped file, blockread/blockwrite
	string var parameter typecheck relaxation
	"val" procedure
	untyped "var" parameter
	Large model pointers.

	.. plus your favourite new turbo builtins ..


Thanks.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473