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From: Jan Prazak <janp9@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: if X in 1..35000 versus Boolean
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:04:09 -0100
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:24:27 -0100, Gautier wrote:

> In fact Turbo Pascal 6 (1990)
> or Delphi 6 (2001) seem to limit the values in sets to 0..255.

You are right, then things like
  if X in [1..25000]
will not even work.

But FreePascal will probably have no limit in the future (it's in the "to
do" list). www.freepascal.org (if someone is interested, but switching
from Ada to FreePascal would not make much sense :))