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From: hedrick@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick)
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Subject: Re: Porting METAFONT to the Pyramid
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 22:10:18 EDT
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> new Pyramid Pascal compiler will not allow you to pass an element of a
> packed array by reference to a procedure (I reported it to Pyramid).

The Pascal standards do not allow an element of a packed array to be
passed by reference.  That it worked before might be called an
extension, but these sorts of minor extensions are generally regarded
as a bad idea.