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From: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: LS PAscal gripe
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Date: 24 Jan 89 20:37:00 GMT
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Reply-To: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
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Has anybody else noticed that Lightspeed Pascal (2.0) does not support negative
field widths in write/writeln statements to left justify numerical output?

Everybody else DOES!  Rich, could you see to it that this goes into version
2.1?  I don't see how it could be that big a trouble to add.

A question for everyone (even Rich).  Is this yet another indication that
THINK is out to just produce a program that 'meets the specs' Pascal-wise?
I would think that they would strive to have the best compiler on the market
in every way possible.

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