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From: wnielsen@lambda.Sun.COM (Walter Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Conformant Arrays and ISO
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Date: 29 Apr 89 05:12:33 GMT
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Reply-To: wnielsen@sun.UUCP (Walter Nielsen)
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>Pardon me if this has been discussed before --- I'm new to
>Do unix-based Pascals (generally) implement the ISO Level 1
>standard (which includes conformant arrays)?  I am
>particularly interested in Apollo's Pascal compiler, which
>I know nothing about.  Any information regarding this, or
>other aspects of Pascal programming on the Apollo, will
>be appreciated.
>

Apollo Pascal does not implement conformant arrays.  To pass
arbitrary length arrays, they put in an extension to the formal
parameter specification called 'UNIV' which inhibits types checking
between the formal and actual parameters.

Sun Pascal implements both conformant arrays and UNIV parameter 
specfication.  I don't know about other Unix Pascal compilers.

-Walter