> NO, YOU, DON'T!
>
> People have been telling you this all the time, why don't you
> listen? THIS DOES WORK IN BP:
>
> program foo;
> const
>   ch: array[1..100] of char = 'When in';
> begin
> end.
>
> (It doesn't work with 1000 indeed, as BP has a string length
> limitation of 255, but that's just a BP quirk.)

 

 

That's very nice.  However, please recall that I said the main reason for using a character array instead of a string is because I needed more than 255 characters.  So, having a better way to initialize a character array of up to 255 characters doesn't help me.  If I only wanted 255 characters I would have used a string in the first place.

 

You may call this "just a BP quirk" but when you are using BP, or when you want to be compatible with BP it is not a "quirk" it is a real limitation.  I have to assume that some of the users of the Pascal Macro Compiler will be using BP, regardless of whatever else exists.