CBFalconer wrote:

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Frank Heckenbach wrote:

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in the course of cleaning up GPC, I plan to drop the following obsolete "features".

• `--standard-pascal[-level-1]' (and the corresponding compiler directives). GPC has `--classic-pascal[-level-1]' now to distinguish it better from Extended Pascal (which also is a standard).

• The syntax `type foo = procedure (Integer, Real)' (i.e., without parameter names).

If you have any objections against removing them, please respond soon.

I strongly disagree. The very words "standard Pascal" intrinsically reference ISO 7185, and "Extended Pascal" correlates directly with the verbiage in ISO 10206. Without these directives/flags the user is left groping about in the documentation to find the appropriate magic incantations for proper validation.

I don't think typing `--standard-pascal' is any easier to use than `--classic-pascal' (in fact, it's even one letter more to type ;-). I'm also not sure whether someone new to GPC would guess `--standard-pascal' without looking in the manual (e.g., Invoking GPC -> GPC Options where the most common options are listed, including `--classic-pascal').

Just in case you misunderstood me here: I'm not going to remove the ISO 7185 support. I just want to remove one of the two equivalent switches to activate it.

I do not think that the number of key strokes matters here. Neither standard-pascal nor classic-pascal are unambiguous terms (though they would do if documented properly).

May I propose to call the option iso7185-pascal. The same number of key strokes as classic-pascal, but, in my humble opinion, unambiguous.

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