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From: andru@rhialto.SGI.COM (Andrew Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: function returning a record?
Summary: ANSI compatibility
Message-ID: <27716@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 89 04:40:37 GMT
References: <2012@pur-phy>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <2012@pur-phy>, murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes:
> 
> I was trying to program a function yesterday similar to the following:
[program excised]
> 
> I found out that Turbo Pascal 5.0 does not support returning a record as a
> value. Does this imply that a function can only return a single value? 
> Is there any way to get a function to return a record?
> Any help would be appreciated.  I will in the mean-time write this with
> pointers.

    This is actually in accordance with ANSI Standard Pascal, which
    specifies that function return values may *only* be simple types
    (integer,reals,chars,booleans), enumerated types, or pointer types.
    Basically, anything that fits in a word, and isn't a record. Whether
    this is a change from TP3,4 I don't know. If you want your Pascal
    programs to be portable, don't use record types for return values!

Andrew