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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Variable declarations & initializations
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Date: 5 May 88 22:54:52 GMT
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Summary: You can't initialize variables at their declaration


I may be putting my foot in my mouth here, but as far as I know,
standard pascal does not allow initialization of variables upon
declaration.  There may be implementations that allow it, but that's a
pretty far-reaching straying from the standard, even worse than
Turbo-Pascal's constant arrays and constant records.

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