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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/02
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randhol+nospam@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) writes:
[...]
> 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?

I've never used Turbo Pascal, but I believe it was based on UCSD
Pascal, which I have used.  In UCSD Pascal, an assignment like the
above would result in an overflow, which would terminate the program.
(The Ada equivalent would be to raise Constraint_Error.)

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