Built-in string functions (was: New GPC beta: gpc-971001)

Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:32:38 +0200 (MEST)

According to Frank Heckenbach:
> 
> It could also be a switch. But wouldn't it be "cleaner" to write it as a
> function? "CStrFunc (Str2CStr (StrVar))" or so...

Ah - you are referring to parameter passing.  Yes, this will be built-in,
so you can just write "CStrFunc ( StrVar )".

> > What functions do you mean?  Built-in replacements for BP's functions from
> > the `Strings' Unit?
> 
> Of course, they could be external functions as well. It's no problem to
> implement them in Pascal. But I think in the long run, all such standard
> functions will be built-in.

You are right that it would be easy to provide these functions as built-in
features once we have solved this problem for parameter passing.  Since there
already is a de-facto standard in BP how to name these functions we should
use that.

Everything okay,

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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