[net.lang.pascal] BORLAND TURBO PASCAL - New release???????

stu@ptsfa.UUCP (Stu Loventhal) (05/15/85)

**I am interested in purchasing borland turbo pascal
but i had heard a rumor that a new version is soon to hi*
hit the market.  Can anyone confirm or deny the rumor??

thx in advance     stu loventhal  ..dual!ptsfa!stu
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brown@nicmad.UUCP (05/17/85)

> **I am interested in purchasing borland turbo pascal
> but i had heard a rumor that a new version is soon to hi*
> hit the market.  Can anyone confirm or deny the rumor??
> 
> thx in advance     stu loventhal  ..dual!ptsfa!stu

Ya, version 3.0 is out and has been for a month or more.  I have my
copy.  There shouldn't be a newer one that 3.0
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strauss@utai.UUCP (Patrick E. Strauss) (05/23/85)

> > **I am interested in purchasing borland turbo pascal
> > but i had heard a rumor that a new version is soon to hi*
> > hit the market.  Can anyone confirm or deny the rumor??
> > 
> > thx in advance     stu loventhal  ..dual!ptsfa!stu
> 
> Ya, version 3.0 is out and has been for a month or more.  I have my
> copy.  There shouldn't be a newer one that 3.0
> -- 
>               |------------|
>               | |-------| o|    JVC HRD725U 
> Mr. Video     | |       | o|  |--------------|
>               | |       |  |  | |----| o o o |
>               | |-------| O|  |--------------|
>               |------------|     VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go)
>    ({!seismo,!ihnp4}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown)


	I would like to know if anyone has tried this new version (3.0) of 
Turbo Pascal in CP/M.  An earlier version was flawed in that recursion was
not properly implemented:  a procedure that called itself using pass-by-
reference  (i.e. passing the parameters using   var: name  ) did not
work properly, and it was even mentioned in the manual briefly under
"differences between standard Pascal and Turbo Pascal".  If anyone knows
if this problem has been solved in the new version, could you please 
respond on net.lang.pascal?

Patrick Strauss

gbs@voder.UUCP (George Smith) (05/27/85)

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> 	I would like to know if anyone has tried this new version (3.0) of 
> Turbo Pascal in CP/M.  An earlier version was flawed in that recursion was
> not properly implemented:  a procedure that called itself using pass-by-
> reference  (i.e. passing the parameters using   var: name  ) did not
> work properly, and it was even mentioned in the manual briefly under
> "differences between standard Pascal and Turbo Pascal".  If anyone knows
> if this problem has been solved in the new version, could you please 
> respond on net.lang.pascal?
> 
> Patrick Strauss

I have Turbo Pascal 3.0 for CP/M and to quote from page 319 of the
brand new manual:
	Recursion

	CP/M-80 version only: Because of the way local variables
	are handled during recursion, a variable local to a
	subprogram must not be passed as a var-parameter in
	recursive calls.

-- 
George B. Smith
National Semiconductor
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rbt@sftig.UUCP (R.Thomas) (05/28/85)

> > > **I am interested in purchasing borland turbo pascal
> > > but i had heard a rumor that a new version is soon to hi*
> > > hit the market.  Can anyone confirm or deny the rumor??
> > > 
> > > thx in advance     stu loventhal  ..dual!ptsfa!stu
> > 
> > Ya, version 3.0 is out and has been for a month or more.  I have my
> > copy.  There shouldn't be a newer one that 3.0
> > -- 
> >               |------------|
> >               | |-------| o|    JVC HRD725U 
> > Mr. Video     | |       | o|  |--------------|
> >               | |       |  |  | |----| o o o |
> >               | |-------| O|  |--------------|
> >               |------------|     VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go)
> >    ({!seismo,!ihnp4}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown)
> 
> 
> 	I would like to know if anyone has tried this new version (3.0) of 
> Turbo Pascal in CP/M.  An earlier version was flawed in that recursion was
> not properly implemented:  a procedure that called itself using pass-by-
> reference  (i.e. passing the parameters using   var: name  ) did not
> work properly, and it was even mentioned in the manual briefly under
> "differences between standard Pascal and Turbo Pascal".  If anyone knows
> if this problem has been solved in the new version, could you please 
> respond on net.lang.pascal?
> 
> Patrick Strauss

I have version 3.0 for CPM/80.  It is just as great as you have heard, but
they havent fixed the recursion bug.  From the sound of the manual, it looks
like they have no intention of fixing it, either.

Rick Thomas
ihnp4!attunix!rbt