jw_rider@usa.net (J. W. Rider) writes:
>*Standard* pascal strings are constants only.

No.  Standard Pascal (ISO 10206) has a string data type,
without the pathetic limitation to 255 bytes of some antiques.

I wish people would find out what the current state of a language is
before they flame it.  It's not as though ISO Pascal Extended came out
yesterday.
-- 
John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok