Re: Turbo Pascal vs. C

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From: decomyn
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 19:57

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In article <410@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes:
>It's true that Turbo Pascal doesn't have built-in support for function 
>pointers. 

This is not true, at least not in Turbo V5.5.  I am currently writing a program
that allows data to be sorted in different orders for viewing on the screen.
Rather than use a CASE statement whenever new data is read in, I have assigned
a PROCEDURE (or FUNCTION -- I am away from the code right now, and can't
remember for sure) variable, and whenever the sorting method changes, I just
change the address in the variable to point to the new routine.  No fuss, no
muss. :-)

Brendt Hess
decomyn@penguin.uss.tek.com

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