Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal grammar: Program heading can include parameters

2010-07-01 Thread Bart
On 7/1/10, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In original pascal you had to specify all opened files there, including > input/output. That is how I learned it (from a book about standard(?) pascal). I remember having several programs with long lists of files, before I discovered that this was not nece

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal grammar: Program heading can include parameters

2010-07-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2010-07-01 12:14, Marco van de Voort het geskryf: > > In original pascal you had to specify all opened files there, including > input/output. Thanks for that history. :) >> Syntax is as follows: >> >> Program -> PROGRAM Ident ['(' IdentList ')'] ';' >> ProgramBlock '.' > > Str

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal grammar: Program heading can include parameters

2010-07-01 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > I'm busy writing a Object Pascal grammar section for the Language Reference > doc. > > In the ref.pdf (page 144) it says that the PROGRAM line can contain > 'program parameters', but is ignored by the compiler. Can anybody explain > these "program