Re: [fpc-pascal] ReadStr/WriteStr vs Val/Str

2010-10-19 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 19 Oct 2010, at 01:56, Richard Ward wrote: > As a user of the old Macintosh Pascal (later THINK Pascal), both ReadStr and > WriteStr functions were included and I used them quite a bit. The names > were different but the FPC implementation is basically the same as far as I > can tell. >

[fpc-pascal] ReadStr/WriteStr vs Val/Str

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Ward
As a user of the old Macintosh Pascal (later THINK Pascal), both ReadStr and WriteStr functions were included and I used them quite a bit. The names were different but the FPC implementation is basically the same as far as I can tell. Besides backward compatibility, portability issues and per