[Info-vax] Pascal question

[John Reagan]

On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 4:20:58 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.
> 

Good point.  Just as soon as a real customer writes that on the back of a $100 bill, I'll get right on it.  I'll call STR$UPCASE for you. :)