minor correction: the substitute (/ /) is for array indices [ ], not for
comments.
This looks like a matter of taste, but if there were significant amounts of
legacy source code using this, this could be of concern.
(I don't know, if this is the case - I have such programs, because (/ /)
was
allowed in some old Pascals including the descendents of the Wirth
compilers -
Stanford, VS/PASCAL of IBM and the one that we had at the Stuttgart
university
in the late 70s / early 80s on the Telefunken TR 440 - probably no one here
will know this machine and the opsys BS3 - I was only 18 years old when
I started
Pascal programming on this machine, today I'm 54).
-> is a substitute for the pointer symbol; other symbols used for this
are ^ and @
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 24.07.2013 12:37, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 24 Jul 2013, at 03:41, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
- Stanford Pascal (my version) allows (. .) and (/ /) as substitutes
for [ ]
FPC also supports (. and .). It doesn't support (/ and /) though.
Support for that could maybe be added under a new syntax mode or mode
switch switch, but is this a common syntax? I've never heard of that
one before.
I'd suggest avoiding (/ /) as comments.
Vector Pascal allows e.g. \+ as a reduction-addition operator, if FPC
ever considered implementing anything like this it would be desirable
to have \ and / unencumbered.
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/%7Ewpc/reports/compilers/compilerindex/vp-ver2.html
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