Re: Easy question about Character manipulation

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 31/1/07 23:46, in article ST9wh.248683$aJ.115281@attbi_s21, "Jeffrey R.
Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:

> Well, there weren't really formal semantics in J&W.

No indeed, I was referring to the BSI/ISO standard.
The J&W language "definition" was a frightful mess
that took us the best part of 2 years to sort out.

> But what I was getting at was that Pascal didn't have
> user-defined numeric types. Like C, you were stuck with
> what the compiler gave you, which generally
> corresponded to what the hardware provided. IIRC, for integers you were
> only guaranteed Integer, though most implementations had additional
> sizes. A subrange was still the same size as Integer, but had run-time
> checks to enforce the smaller range, just like an Ada subtype.

That's exactly right.

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Bill Findlay
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