[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/21/2019 8:23 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/21/19 6:56 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> The original Pascal as defined by Niklaus Wirth didn't have
> a string type at all.

First version of his paper actually had an alfa type that seems
very similar to a string.

In the 1973 version and forward it was all packed array of char.

Arne