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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal Enumerated I/O
Message-ID: <284@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 23:24:55 GMT
References: <1077@csuna.UUCP>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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in article <1077@csuna.UUCP>, abcscnuk@csuna.UUCP (Naoto Kimura) says:
> 
> In article <673@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

> Output I can see how it could be done, but input is another story.   The
> compiler would have to have something like yacc or lex built into it.
> 
  We implemented it here at Megatest without breathing hard. (Actually
  just debugged the Berkeley implementation.)  Instead of yacc and lex we
  used, TA TA!, getchar(). (It used to be scanf().)

> As someone has already stated, I/O of enumerated types is contradictory to
> the policy of strong typing.

  Huh?



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