[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/21/19 3:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/21/2019 1:53 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 1/21/2019 1:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 1/21/2019 12:00 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>>> On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 11:40:02 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> On 1/21/2019 11:19 AM, Emilio Moreno wrote:
>>>>>> Here is another one. upcase
>>>>>
>>>>> Weird. I don't seem to be able to find anything better
>>>>> than:
>>>
>>>> str$upcase is about the best you'll get from Pascal.
>>>
>>> Maybe it was time to add 25-50 convenience functions to
>>> VMS Pascal?
>>>
>>> People expect more today. And adding them would show some
>>> progress. And the effort should not be that big aka low hanging
>>> fruit.
>>
>> Or, one can build a library  of often used capabilities ....
> 
> Of course.
> 
> But it would be better if the standard language runtime came
> with such functionality instead of having hundreds of developers
> each implement their own.
> 
> It is not like uppercasing is a very special function that
> only very few need.
> 
> It is relative common.
> 
> And many other mostly newer languages certainly has it.
> 

So push the Pascal Standards Committee to add it.  :-)

Sorry, that is such a trivial task I can't imagine why the
question was even asked.

bill