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From: jfm@ux.acs.umn.edu (Jim Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: pascal writeln format error?
Keywords: pascal,writeln
Message-ID: <1015@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 01:23:59 GMT
References: <15473@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <34282@mips.mips.COM>
Reply-To: jfm@ux.acs.umn.edu (Jim Miner)
Distribution: comp.sys.mips,comp.lang.pascal
Organization: Univeristy of Minnesota / ACSS Languages Group
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In article <34282@mips.mips.COM> zaineb@mips.COM (Zaineb Asaf) writes:
>>>From: putz@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric Putz)
>>>	writeln(1.0:1:0) gives me 1.0e+00.
>
>The above statement is incorrect according to Standard Pascal.  
>Therefore, this problem is a user error; however, the compiler will be changed
>to give a runtime error if this situation will happen.

Standard Pascal does make this an error.  Interestingly, Extended Pascal
permits FractDigits to be zero.  The result would be "1." (not "1" as desired
by Eric Putz).