Lance Boyle wrote:
"Official" Pascal for opening a file and associating a name with it
(e.g., a disk file) goes like this:
assign(aFile, FileNameString);
reset(aFile); {or rewrite, etc.}
Assign is not "official" Pascal but a non-standard Turbo/Borland/Delphi
Pascal extension.
All of the Pascals that I have used allowed the following shorthand,
an extension:
reset(aFile, FileNameString); {or rewrite, etc.}
"FileNameString" also is a non-standard (non-ISO) Pascal extension ....
At least one of these Pascals was not a Macintosh Pascal, so I never
considered it a "Mac" extension. Yet, I can find no possibility of
this in FPC, in spite of its various compatibility modes.
... but indeed many Pascal compilers support it.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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