On: 50 Years of Pascal

[andi999]

So you never tried to write a function that accepts strings with different length?

[raister → andi999]

This was 'solved' with pointers, didn't? (symbol ^) Well, we're talking about at least 25 years ago, so I clearly not remember this hiccup whatsoever

[andi999 → raister]

Turbo Pascal didnt have that hiccup, only the original language.

[badsectoracula → andi999]

You can work around this - Turbo Pascal's strings are essentially syntax sugar for

    type string = record Length: Byte; Chars: array [1..255] of Char end;

You can use this to make your own string handling procedures, the hardest part would be passing arbitrary string literals but that could probably worked around too with conversion functions.