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From: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: More questions about the  Pascal Standard
Message-ID: <1119@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 02:09:09 GMT
Reply-To: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham)
Organization: Academic Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC
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["Line-Eater vs. the Worm" now showing at a theater near you...]

Thanks to everyone that had lots to say about current and upcoming Pascal
standards.  Just a few more questions:

- Will the new standard support compile-time initialization of variables,
a la the following:

var
 j:integer:=5;
 z:array[1..5] of integer:=(1,2,3,4,9999999);
 test:record
	name:string; {or however X3J9 does it)
	ssnum:integer;
      end:=('John Doe',123456789);

- In the new standard, can type/var/const declarations appear more than once,
 as in:

type qq=1..5;

var z:array[qq] of integer;

type zmy:set of char;

var m:zmy;


I know I had more questions to ask; doubtless I'll think of them the minute I
post this.  In the meantime, advTHANKSance as always...

						sbigham

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