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From: garyr@hpmwtla.HP.COM ( Gary Rensberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: High praise for Turbo Pascal...
Message-ID: <2270009@hpmwtla.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 88 00:39:54 GMT
References: <464@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: HP MicroWave Technology - Santa Rosa,CA
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In article <sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk> :

> Compatibility with what ?? Anyway, I really like Mac Turbo Pascal (now
> up to version 1.1) except for the following minor quibbles :

> 2) You cannot put constant expressions in CONST or CASE sections :
>    e.g.         const    fred = 2 ;
>                          bill = fred * 2 ; { This statement is ILLEGAL in
                                             Mac TP, but OK in MS-DOS TP }

The MS-DOS version which I use at work (TP 4.0) doesn't allow this either
(as far as I know), and it's a feature I'd like to see in both the Mac and 
PC versions.

- Gary Rensberger
- UUCP:  hplabs!hpmwtla!garyr
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