On 19/01/2015 13:29, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
Not sure which pascal its inherited from... but Delphi 7 does
compile it too.
It was certainly a feature of the first TurboPascal, and perhaps was in
even earlier Pascal compilers, enabling simple insertion of control
characters from the keyboard.
Later superseded by the "control string" syntax (#nnn) which gave access
to all 8-bit ASCII values, it was retained by Borland for backwards
compatibility reasons. A complication for parsers since "^" has other
meanings of far more significance in most Pascal code.
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