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[Walter Bright]

"Lionello Lunesu" <lio at remove.lunesu.com> wrote in message 
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> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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>> Pascal doesn't do array slicing.
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> Probably GPC specific then:
> http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/String-Slice-Access.html

The article does say it is for "Extended" Pascal. That's the trouble with 
Pascal - it is unusable as defined. Every useful implementation found it 
necessary to add numerous extensions.

> Although the notation array[x..y] was already used in 'normal' Pascal when 
> declaring arrays.

Yes, but that isn't array slicing, it's more of a way to set the index for 
the 'zeroth' element. This is not supported in D.

Pascalish nested functions, however, *are* in D <g>. That was the only 
Pascal characteristic I missed.