Am 18.06.2023 um 03:04 schrieb Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal:
On Jun 18, 2023, at 1:07 AM, tsie...@softcon.com wrote:
This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen "break" as a
valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal since the mid/late 80s. All kinds of
dialects
On 6/17/23 2:07 PM, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen "break" as a
valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal since the mid/late 80s. All
kinds of dialects too, and I've never seen break as a keyword. C, Python, Perl,
On 6/18/2023 1:04 AM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
I don't remember break NOT being in Pascal. How did you exit a loop
otherwise, goto? Break is common in basically all languages now. Can't
think of a language I've used without it.
Use a variable, set the variable when you hit an exit c
On 6/18/2023 6:53 AM, Bernd Oppolzer via fpc-pascal wrote:
The compiler is a self-hosting compiler (like most Pascal compilers, I
believe) and up to 2011
there were many exits from loops bye putting a label after the loop
and using GOTO
(because of the absence of BREAK). Similar use of GOTO
