13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
7:20 p.m.
Waldek Hebisch wrote:
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No, all elements of `Test' have well-defined value. It is standard: `Test' is padded with blanks to the full length (so all positions from 12 to 256 contain blanks). GPC `write' strips trailing blanks.
That would make it rather hard to move to an appropriate column with:
write(' '); or even: write(' ' : 5); or: i := 5; write(' ' : i);
all of which have applications. So the only thing that hangs together for me is for writeln to do the trailing blank stripping. Even this will make it hard to erase a line on a simple terminal.
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