Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!young@uci-750a From: young%uci-750a@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal bug Message-ID: <17535@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 23:59:20 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17535 Posted: Tue Mar 13 23:59:20 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 02:35:56 EST Lines: 14 From: Michal YoungIn response to the person who thought the reported bug was wrong, because it uses an assignment to a singly subscripted component of a doubly subscripted array (i.e. an array of arrays of char): Wrongo! A quoted string is the same as a packed array of char in Jensen & Wirth standard Pascal, so assigning a quoted string to one component of an array, each component of which is an array of characters, is perfectly legal and reasonable. If Turbo doesn't do it right, it's a bug. --Michal Young