Re: GNU Pascal Coding stuff

Marco van de Voort wrote:

• You discourage the use of (*, because displaying "(" would be difficult on

some terminals, but afaik { is also?

Nope. What we mean is: The (* *) comments (just like (. .) for array indexing etc.) were introduced in the language because at that time { }, [ ] etc. were difficult on some terminals.

Today, this isn't an issue anymore, therefore we use the "original" (and shorter) forms { } and [ ].

If that wasn't clear, it should be written more extensive in the text.

• The document itself has no copyright statement.

It does, once in @ifinfo, and once in @titlepage (which appears only in the TeXed versions), so it's indeed missing in the HTML version.

Nick, you might want to try s/@ifinfo/@ifnottex/ or something. (Though my texinfo manual suggests what you did, but it might be from a time where HTML output was not supported.)

Frank