[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/22/2019 2:58 AM, Brian_R wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 1:44:04 AM UTC, John Reagan wrote:
>> As for string manipulation, like upcase, it hasn't been a popular
>> request.
> 
> Why would it be, its handled quite nicely by the OS libraries. I use
> VMS Pascal on a daily basis and we use STR$xxxxx for standard string
> handling.

I still think builtin Pascal functions would be nicer.

> Now additional routines (RTL preferred) for the manipulation of JSON
> structures might be a plan.

Given that VMS Pascal AFAIK does not support any type of reflection,
then there are heavy constraints on what is possible.

Do you basically just need a good parser that makes it easy to do:

JSON string---(generic parser)--->generic data structure---(custom 
code)--->custom data structure

?

Arne