Hi,   
      
   On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 9:56:01 AM UTC-5, Robert Prins wrote:   
   >   
   > One feature sadly missing from Pascal is the fact that PL/I allows you to use   
   > '*' as array extents in a called proc, and the (hidden) descriptors that are   
   > also passed to it allow you to call the same proc with   
   > ...   
      
   I don't quite understand what you mean here.   
      
   > and a set of builtin functions (lbound and hbound) can be used to retrieve   
   > the low and high bounds of the arrays. ;) It's a bit more convoluted to do   
   > this with Pascal...   
      
   Are you talking about conformant arrays? Schemata? Open arrays?   
   Even Turbo Pascal (only later versions?) had LOW() and HIGH() built-ins.   
   Is that what you meant?   
      
   * https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu14.html   
      
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