[fpc-pascal] About reset(aFile, FileNameString)

[Lance Boyle]

Thanks for the pointers 8^), y'all.

Lance


On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Adriaan van Os wrote:

> Lance Boyle wrote:
>
>
>> "Official" Pascal for opening a file and associating a name with  
>> it (e.g., a disk file) goes like this:
>>
>> assign(aFile, FileNameString);
>> reset(aFile); {or rewrite, etc.}
>>
>
> Assign is not "official" Pascal but a non-standard Turbo/Borland/ 
> Delphi Pascal extension.

Thanks for the correction. I guess I never have used actual "Wirth"  
Pascal and had forgotten that even assign() is an extension.
>
>
>> All of the Pascals that I have used allowed the following  
>> shorthand, an extension:
>>
>> reset(aFile, FileNameString); {or rewrite, etc.}
>>
>
> "FileNameString" also is a non-standard (non-ISO) Pascal  
> extension ....
>
>
>> At least one of these Pascals was not a Macintosh Pascal, so I  
>> never considered it a "Mac" extension. Yet, I can find no  
>> possibility of this in FPC, in spite of its various compatibility  
>> modes.
>>
>
> ... but indeed many Pascal compilers support it.

Nice. 8^)

>
> Regards,
>
> Adriaan van Os
>
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