14 Nov
2005
14 Nov
'05
12:34 p.m.
(from prior thread: Re: test program for Extended Pascal strings)
On 13 Nov 2005, at 08:40, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Then I get a range-check error in this line:
IF x1[j*k..20][1] <> 'k' THEN fail(34);This is because GPC does not shift the range of string slices to 1..x by default, only in EP mode. Currently we don't have a separate feature options for this, so I tried with --extended-pascal now (removing the non-EP parts). I then get:
Rather than adding a separate feature option, why not make shifting the range of string slices the default behavior? Aren't string slices a feature available only in Extended Pascal implementations, anyway?
Willett Kempton