[fpc-devel] Console IO revisited

[Thaddy]

On 3-12-2010 13:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> As said in my other mail:
> The behaviour of Input, Output, StdErr is not governed by OS rules, 
> but by the pascal standard.
>
> Michael.

My understanding has always been that the PASCAL syntax allowed for 
console IO in a way that encapsulates the console IO features that an OS 
supports.
Although it might very well be PASCAL was the first high level language 
to support it..  Wait! Oh, no it's not, that was Fortran (port(5); and 
port(6);  ;-) ) since the 50's.
By today's standards I suppose you should read it like that. But I will 
give up my efforts if nobody else cares... :-)

It just seems strange and a wrong way of doing things.
But I agree, only from an OS perspective, not from the language point of 
view.

In the context of OS's CONIN$ etc are rather common beasts and might 
have - a lot: windows 1 f.e - something to do with Pascal history, but 
not with the language as such anymore.
In the case of historic arguments I see no reason to change over 40 year 
old expected language behaveour anyway :-)

If you all say no, I will live with it.