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From: randhol+nospam@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/02
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On Tue, 2 May 2000 14:32:50 +0200, Tarjei T. Jensen wrote:

>line : string[80];
>short_line : string[40];
>
>line := "Nice weather";
>
>short_line := line;
>

As I cannot remember much of turbopascal I curious:

If you write in turbopascal.

line : string[12];
short_line : string[5];
line := "Hello World!";
short_line := line;

would short_line be "Hello" or will it be altered to a string[12] and
thus contain all of line?

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