Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Mike_G_Newman
From: Mike_G_Newman@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Turbo Pascal - Am I Nuts?
Message-ID: <7536@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Jul 88 21:58:52 GMT
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I may have missed something in the past, but the following 
puzzles me:

In 'How to Write Macintosh Software', Scott Knaster says that I 
can do something like this:

     errCode := FSRead(fileRefNum,count,thisMemberHdl^);

However, Borland's Turbo Pascal wants me to do this:

     errCode := FSRead(fileRefNum,count,@thisMember);

Can someone explain this to me?  Who's right?  Are there other 
problems with the Turbo compiler?

What is the Pascal compiler of choice these days?  (I know 
everyone likes LSP, but I'm afraid I abandoned it out of sloth -- 
I didn't want to rewrite a lot of code that I had written in 
MacPascal that was full of 'exit' statements.)

Finally, is this the place where one can turn to ask basic 
questions about programming?  I live on a little island (Saipan) 
and no one else here seems to write code.  So, I have no where to 
turn to ask my probably-very-stupid questions.  (I know, the only 
stupid question is one you don't ask.  However, I would hate to 
breach etiquette here by asking questions at an inappropriate 
level....)

E-Mail replies are just fine.

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