Tomas Hajny wrote:
I can't remember the source, but my understanding is that Wirth originally worked with an IBM 029 keypunch, possibly connected preparing decks for a CDC. He specifically defined (* and *) as digraphs for { and }, and I think there were others including (. and .) for [ and ] Did FPC /ever/ fully-support these?These should be fine (as easily confirmed by a short test program). I actually use (* and *) for comments quite often to distinguish from other comments using { and }. ;-) I'm not aware of a digraph for the caret sign though which is (as correctly pointed out by you) missing in the EBCDIC character sets specifically targetting English (and also Portuguese apparently ;-) ) - it seems to exist in the "International" character sets.
Some of the {$ directives apparently don't have (*$ equivalents. MACRO if I recall correctly.
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