[comp.lang.pascal] The ISO Standard

jipping@frodo.cs.hope.EDU (Mike Jipping) (04/28/88)

Folks:
   I'm hoping to get my own copy of the ISO standard and am wondering where 
to get one.  What's the address...what does it cost...how long does it take
to get sent???
   Thanks.
                                                          -- Mike
      Mike Jipping
      Hope College
      Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu

djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) (04/29/88)

in article <13161@brl-adm.ARPA>, jipping@frodo.cs.hope.EDU (Mike Jipping) says:
> 
> Folks:
>    I'm hoping to get my own copy of the ISO standard and am wondering where 
> to get one.  What's the address...what does it cost...how long does it take
> to get sent???
>    Thanks.
>                                                           -- Mike
>       Mike Jipping
>       Hope College
>       Department of Computer Science
>       jipping@cs.hope.edu


Do you know what you're letting yourself in for?   I don't have my
copy handy, but here's an excerpt quoted in _Standard_Pascal_ by
Doug Cooper:

	The activation of a procedure or function shall be the activation
	of the block of its procedure-block or function-block, respectively,
	and shall be designated within the activation containing the
	procedure or function, and all activations that that containing
	activation is within.

Cooper was demonstrating just why you want to use _his_ book, rather
than the ISO standard.  Well?  He convinced me.

It is published by  W. W. Norton and Co, New York.  DON'T confuse 
it with _Oh! Pascal_, a textbook which I do not recommend at all.

I've found only one mistake in the book.  On pages 38 and 128, it
says,

	The end-of-file function has the value _true_ only if
	the current file buffer variable f^ is positioned at
	the last component of the file f, ...

It should read,

	The end-of-file function has the value true only if
	the current file buffer variable f^ is positioned _beyond_
	the last component of the file f, ...



	-- Dave J.