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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: I Need One (was Re: Translating Pascal ==> C: nested procedures)
Message-ID: <2728@solo1.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 12 Jun 89 16:08:36 GMT
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conway@hpdtl.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway) writes:
\chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) replies to rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang):
\>>		procedure insert_in_symtab(what : node);
\>
\>[Underscores are not legal in Pascal; perhaps you mean

\They are legal in every Pascal compiler that I use.

They're NOT standard. :-(

\>		procedure insertinsymtab(what : node);
\>
\>:-) (actually, it should be all uppercase as well, but that goes *too* far)]

\I recall seeing this restriction in an early version of the P4 compiler that I
\used in 1978.  I am not aware of this being a problem in any modern
\implementation of Pascal.

(Modern) Pascal ignores the case of identifiers and keywords. :-(
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