2015-01-19 14:17 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Boyarintsev <skalogryz.li...@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> today I saw this kind of character escaping:
> var
> a :char;
> begin
> a:=^M; // char(13)
> writeln(^X); // char(24)
> end;
>
> The code of the character is derived as ord(letter)-ord('A')+1
> Not sure which pascal its inherited from... but Delphi 7 does compile it
> too.
>
> I vaguely remember it seeing before once .. and ... a lot of time ago.
>
IIRC good old Turbo Pascal had this too.
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