Thanks for the pointers 8^), y'all.
Lance
On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Adriaan van Os wrote:
Lance Boyle wrote:
"Official" Pascal for opening a file and associating a name with
it (e.g., a disk file) goes like this:
assign(aFile, FileNameString);
reset(aFile); {or rewrite, etc.}
Assign is not "official" Pascal but a non-standard Turbo/Borland/
Delphi Pascal extension.
Thanks for the correction. I guess I never have used actual "Wirth"
Pascal and had forgotten that even assign() is an extension.
All of the Pascals that I have used allowed the following
shorthand, an extension:
reset(aFile, FileNameString); {or rewrite, etc.}
"FileNameString" also is a non-standard (non-ISO) Pascal
extension ....
At least one of these Pascals was not a Macintosh Pascal, so I
never considered it a "Mac" extension. Yet, I can find no
possibility of this in FPC, in spite of its various compatibility
modes.
... but indeed many Pascal compilers support it.
Nice. 8^)
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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