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From: ali@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Interactive I/O in Pascal
Message-ID: <773@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 3-Aug-86 21:58:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: navajo.773
Posted: Sun Aug  3 21:58:06 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Aug-86 07:14:46 EDT
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Reply-To: ali@navajo.UUCP (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: Pascal, conformant arrays

In article <563@watmum.UUCP> gvcormack@watmum.UUCP (Gordon V. Cormack) writes:
>...Just for starters, you can't (in Wirth's Pascal, anyway) even write
>a procedure that takes a quoted string as a parameter, unless its
>length is hard coded...

True, but thanks to conformant arrays, you can do stuff like:

procedure Foo (str: packed array [lo..hi: integer] of char);

Then calls to Foo with packed arrays of any length are legal. And conformant
arrays are part of the Pascal standard  now, aren't they?

Ali, ali@su-score.arpa, ali@navajo