[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/21/2019 4:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.  :-)

Not going to happen.

But since VMS Pascal already have several extensions compared
to ISO Pascal, then the lack of it in the standard should not
prevent VSI from adding it.

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

Because it is something that you by todays standards would
expect to be there - not having to spend time implementing
common tasks trivial or non trivial.

Arne