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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: LSP 2.0: What IS this stuff?
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Date: 18 Feb 89 17:31:56 GMT
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In article <418350af.1199f@apollo.COM> lsmith@apollo1.UUCP (Larry Smith) writes:
	[Questions about UNIV,  object Pascal,  and the manual...]

	A UNIV parameter is a parameter that is compatible as an argument
with any data type of similar size; for example:

	procedure Foo(var bar : UNIV LongInt);

As declared, you could pass any 4-byte data type to Foo, and the compiler
will not perform the usual type checking on it.

Object Pascal, and some of the more esoteric MPW Pascal extensions, were
left out of the manual due to time constraints; an addendum will probably
be out this summer.

		--Rich



Rich Siegel
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