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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Interactive I/O in Pascal
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Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 00:34:33 EDT
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Summary: Pascal I/O is language, not lib.

In article <5918@lanl.ARPA> crs@lanl.ARPA (Charlie Sorsby) writes:
	[attribution omitted]
>> As far as I know, the semantics of lazy I/O ...
>As I understand it, printf and scanf are not considered part of the C
>language but rather are part of the standard I/O package.  Is this also
>true for writeln and readln in Pascal?  If so, it appears that standard
>I/O packages are being compared rather than languages.  ...

Yes, you are missing something.  Pascal I/O is part of the language,
and not part of any library.  It is a "built-in."
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
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