Re: Delphi. Excessive type-bondage.

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Delphi. Excessive type-bondage.
Date: 23:03 on 25 Aug 2006
>   Arguments C1 and C2 are not acceptable to SwapBytes, *although they have
>   the exact memory representation and range that a Byte has*.  [Emphasis
>   mine.]

That's because Delphi is Pascal on drugs.

(well, ALL Pascal is Pascal on drugs, including Wirth's own implementation
 which we used at Berkeley before they replaced pascals with pix, because
 when Pascal's sober it wouldn't even put out for Niklaus)

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