Re: close(file); always necessary??

samiam@moorecad.com wrote:

Then that would leave you pretty close to automatic dynamic storage recycling, no ?

Partly. When a pointer variable goes out of scope, we cannot automatically dispose it, since copies may exist. Fully automatic storage recycling still requries full-blown reference counting or garbage collection, AFAICS. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, f.heckenbach@fh-soft.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html GPC download signing key: ACB3 79B2 7EB2 B7A7 EFDE D101 CD02 4C9D 0FE0 E5E8