maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (06/12/89)
conway@hpdtl.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway) writes:
\chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) replies to rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang):
\>> procedure insert_in_symtab(what : node);
\>
\>[Underscores are not legal in Pascal; perhaps you mean
\They are legal in every Pascal compiler that I use.
They're NOT standard. :-(
\> procedure insertinsymtab(what : node);
\>
\>:-) (actually, it should be all uppercase as well, but that goes *too* far)]
\I recall seeing this restriction in an early version of the P4 compiler that I
\used in 1978. I am not aware of this being a problem in any modern
\implementation of Pascal.
(Modern) Pascal ignores the case of identifiers and keywords. :-(
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