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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal Enumerated I/O
Message-ID: <689@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 02:44:44 GMT
References: <1077@csuna.UUCP> <284@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 17
Summary: clarification

In article <284@goofy.megatest.UUCP>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
: 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.
: > 
: > As someone has already stated, I/O of enumerated types is contradictory to
: > the policy of strong typing.
: 
:   Huh?
Just in case it confused you as much as it confused me, the embedded quotation
actually contains no text from me.  I am *for* I/O of enumerated data-types,
think it is easy to do (I haven't done it for Pascal, but I have done it for
another language, and yes, getc()/putc() are all you need; lex is not for
serious players), and do not see why anyone would think it went against
strong typing.  In fact, NOT doing it goes against strong typing.