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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: The ISO Standard
Message-ID: <491@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 22:49:07 GMT
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in article <13161@brl-adm.ARPA>, jipping@frodo.cs.hope.EDU (Mike Jipping) says:
> 
> Folks:
>    I'm hoping to get my own copy of the ISO standard and am wondering where 
> to get one.  What's the address...what does it cost...how long does it take
> to get sent???
>    Thanks.
>                                                           -- Mike
>       Mike Jipping
>       Hope College
>       Department of Computer Science
>       jipping@cs.hope.edu


Do you know what you're letting yourself in for?   I don't have my
copy handy, but here's an excerpt quoted in _Standard_Pascal_ by
Doug Cooper:

	The activation of a procedure or function shall be the activation
	of the block of its procedure-block or function-block, respectively,
	and shall be designated within the activation containing the
	procedure or function, and all activations that that containing
	activation is within.

Cooper was demonstrating just why you want to use _his_ book, rather
than the ISO standard.  Well?  He convinced me.

It is published by  W. W. Norton and Co, New York.  DON'T confuse 
it with _Oh! Pascal_, a textbook which I do not recommend at all.

I've found only one mistake in the book.  On pages 38 and 128, it
says,

	The end-of-file function has the value _true_ only if
	the current file buffer variable f^ is positioned at
	the last component of the file f, ...

It should read,

	The end-of-file function has the value true only if
	the current file buffer variable f^ is positioned _beyond_
	the last component of the file f, ...



	-- Dave J.