Re: Simple Pascal question

On 8/4/2024 6:19 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 10:51:20 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/4/2024 8:22 AM, Dan Cross wrote:

An old annoyance about Pascal was that the size of an array is part of
it's type, which makes writing functions and procedures that work
across differently sized arrays challenging.

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In original Wirth Pascal. Most implementations has solutions.

 ISO Pascal added “conformant arrays”, where the array bounds were passed
as separate arguments.

I thought that on VMS this was done by passing an array descriptor and
not by pass extra arguments. dsc$descriptor_a etc..

                       I don’t think you ever saw these on the micros,
which persisted with their UCSD-Pascal derivatives. But you did on the
bigger machines.

They made an even easier solution: not specifying index at all.
See FPC code posted earlier.
Arne