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From: Frank Heckenbach
Subject: GNU Pascal Coding stuff
Date: 13 Jul 2001, 22:40:36

Marco van de Voort wrote:

> - You discourage the use of (*, because displaying "(" would be difficult on
> some terminals, but afaik { is also?

Nope. What we mean is: The (* *) comments (just like (. .) for array
indexing etc.) were introduced in the language because at that time
{ }, [ ] etc. were difficult on some terminals.

Today, this isn't an issue anymore, therefore we use the "original"
(and shorter) forms { } and [ ].

If that wasn't clear, it should be written more extensive in the
text.

> - The document itself has no copyright statement.

It does, once in @ifinfo, and once in @titlepage (which appears only
in the TeXed versions), so it's indeed missing in the HTML version.

Nick, you might want to try s/@ifinfo/@ifnottex/ or something.
(Though my texinfo manual suggests what you did, but it might be
from a time where HTML output was not supported.)

Frank

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Author	Subject	Date
Russ Whitaker	GNU Pascal Coding stuff	13 Jul 2001, 14:33:34
Nicola Girardi	GNU Pascal Coding stuff	14 Jul 2001, 00:07:48
Frank Heckenbach	Standards.text	14 Jul 2001, 13:32:36
Nicola Girardi	Standards.text	14 Jul 2001, 15:08:08
Frank Heckenbach	Standards.text	14 Jul 2001, 18:36:29

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