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:
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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 don’t think you ever saw these on the micros,
which persisted with their UCSD-Pascal derivatives. But you did on the
bigger machines.
 Also I didn’t know before, but there is an official spec for “Extended
Pascal”, too: ISO 10206.

Yes, the preface to ISO 10206 has lots of project history and why we ended up with a separate document instead of just extending ISO 7185.
And for those who don't have a copy (IEEE still holds the copyright), you'll find:
The efforts are acknowledged of all those who contributed to the work of JPC, and in particular:
Thomas N. Turba Chairman X3J9
Michael Patrick Hagerty Chairman IEEE P770
John R. Reagan Secretary
followed by a lengthy list of names including Steve Hobbs who was the VAX Pascal V2 project leader.
And there was also a follow-up annex to ISO 10206 with object oriented extensions that I think nobody every implemented.