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- From: max@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Max Ziff)
- Subject: Pascal Standards Questions
- Message-ID: <MAX.93Jan24113738@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:37:38 GMT
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- I have a few more questions about Pascal standards.
-
- 1) The report specifies "conformant-array parameters". Are these
- widely implemented? Is this part of any emerging specification? What
- is the most portable, most polymorphic way of writing a function that,
- say, takes the average of the elements of an array which it is passed
- as a parameter?
-
- 2) Is there any standard for signalling errors? Is there a portable
- way of signalling the same error that is generated at run-time by
- divide-by-zero? Are run-time errors part of any standard?
-
- 3) Is there a portable, standard way of generating a value NaN?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
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- Donald Ziff (Max) Department of Computer Science
- University of Chicago
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- ziff@cs.uchicago.edu
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