On 16 Oct 2001, at 20:34, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
I don't see a big difference between `--standard-pascal' and `--iso-pascal'....
I don't either, except it removes the possibly misleading word "standard" (implying that "standard-pascal" is standardized or preferred, whereas "extended-pascal" is not -- I hope I now take Joe's point correctly :-).
(EP is also ISO).
Hence the suggestion of "--iso-extended-pascal". The title pages of the respective standards say, "Pascal" and "Extended Pascal," so my suggestion incorporated those titles in the switch names.
So if anything, I'd tend to `--classic-pascal' or so.
"Classic Pascal" is meaningless to me (it's actually more suggestive of some variant with proprietary extensions, as the ISO standard was never "classic" in the sense that it was the version that everyone used; GPC is the first Pascal compiler I've used -- and I've used many -- that provides a strict ISO 7185 option).
I'm happy with "--standard-pascal" and "--extended-pascal" if everyone else is.
And every user who uses the option would have to change it ...
Which may be the best argument for leaving it alone.
-- Dave