[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Dave Froble]

On 1/21/2019 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.

I agree.

However, it's the concept that helps.  Once one has such a library, they 
are more ready to add to it at need.

The STR$ routine John mentioned is indeed part of such a library, which 
is also part of VMS.  So, it's in there.  First thing I did was look at 
LIB$ stuff, and it wasn't there.  I've used the STR$ stuff much less 
frequently.  Poor judgement on my part.



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