Re: VMS Pascal article

On 1/3/2025 4:51 PM, Dan Cross wrote:

In article <vl9khp$cdg$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:

However, these deficiencies are largely addressed in ISO 10206
Extended Pascal, which provides a variable-length string type
and permits conformant array parameters, which for VSI Pascal
appear to monomorphize over the argument type.

 Actually, I guess that conformant array parameterss were in ISO
7185, which had two "levels" of compliance; level 0 omitted them
and level 1 includes them.  That language is retained in ISO
10206.  Original, Wirth Pascal does not have them.
 Extended Pascal's variable string type appears more or less
identical to the string type in VSI Pascal.

The SPD ( https://vmssoftware.com/docs/VSI_Pascal_spd.pdf )
says:
<quote>
VSI Pascal is an implementation of the Pascal language that accepts programs compatible with either
level of the ISO specification for Programming languages - Pascal ([ISO 7185-1987]) as well as
(ANSI/IEEE 770X3.97-1987).
...
                                                                VSI
Pascal also accepts many features from the Extended Pascal standard ((ANSI/IEEE 770X3. 160-1989)
and (ISO 10206)).
...
Major Pascal Language Elements:
...
● STRING schema denoting variable-length character strings up to 65,535 characters
</quote>
which I read as that string is supposed to be the standard (10206) string.
Arne