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   Marco van de Voort to Georg von Moedling   
   Re: Pascal Macro Compiler   
   13 Apr 05 10:52:18   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2005-04-13, Georg von Moedling  wrote:   
   >> Borland have already thought of that case; the following is a compilable   
   >> program :   
   >>   
   >>         const Hex : array [0..15] of char = '0123456789ABCDEF' ;   
   >>         begin end.   
      
   > Borland did not think about the case   
   >   
   >          const Mes : set of char = ['W', 'a', 'r', 'n', 'i', 'n','g'] ;   
   >          begin end.   
   >   
   > to be treated as a string.   
      
   Well, count your blessings ;-)   
      
   Whatever you think about the preprocessor, having that syntax _in_ language   
   would be horrible IMHO.   
      
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