CBFalconer wrote:
Aside - I prepared a text version of ISO10206 and sent it to Frank a few days ago. I have not heard anything back from him. It seems like a good thing to have around for instant searches, etc. I wonder if he received it?
Yes, I did. However, are we allowed to distribute it at all? What is the copyright status of the document?
I consider the lack of range-checking to be the worst failing of GPC. The point of using Pascal is to have ones hand held and to generate safe code. Without range checks one might as well use C.
I thought so too when I came to GPC. However, in the years I've found that it was not that bad, at least for me (not meaning to justify GPC's failure, of course).
It is still one of the top-priority bugs. OTOH, there was recently quite some consensus on finishing a 2.1 release soon. Afterwards, range checking should be one of the next features implemented.
Frank