[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Dave Froble]

On 1/21/2019 4:57 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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. :)
>
>

Why?  Because they are too lazy to do it themselves?

:-)

Actually, while at the risk of wasting your valuable time, I'd ask, why 
would Pascal as implemented by you not already have such a function? 
Understand, I don't use Pascal.  Was string handling not a featured part 
of the language?

What type of tasks is / was Pascal aimed at?

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