Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    comp.lang.pascal.borland    |    Borland Pascal was actually pretty neat    |    2,978 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 1,450 of 2,978    |
|    Dr Engelbert Buxbaum to Dr John Stockton    |
|    Re: Infinite Loops & other things    |
|    04 Mar 05 08:54:55    |
      From: engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com              Dr John Stockton wrote:              > That is a terminological inexactitude.       >       > In BP7, and in Delphi 3,       > const       > true : boolean = false ;       > false : boolean = 2<>3 ;       > begin Writeln(true:6, false:6) ;       > end.       >       > gives FALSE TRUE       >              Is that a Borland-specific behaviour? I don't have the "Manual and       Report" handy, but IIRC that sort of thing was not allowed. Nor should       it be, IMHO.              > The wise programmer, however, will not redefine predefined items.              Exactly.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca