... Hallo, if i try to setup the new cpisetup.exe i get an error "the operating system is not adequate for running CPIde." Im useing windows 2000 with Dot NET...
... Hi Marc, Thanks for the feedback. Can you think of any more topics for examples that might be useful - particularly to CP newbies or .NET newbies? Regards,...
... Well, you've got a lot of Console output examples, but the only textfile output example I see "Birthdays", and people may not realize that this has...
John, I was looking at the GPCP version history within "GPCPcopyright.cp", and see that from 2000 to 2005, there were multiple new releases of GPCP each year....
Gah! Don't let GPCP development stop! I think this is an excellent language; even though I only understand the simpler parts of it, it is still very pleasant...
Chris (or anyone else), I have a few modules which require different compiler parameters than most of my other modules. Specifically, modules which import...
... Or... I wonder if "-unsafe" and "-special" should be required options at all? I mean, if one imports SYSTEM, then is there any need to also have an ...
... Good idea - I'll add some new textfile IO examples. ... US). Thanks for pointing that out - I'll see if I can use the Invariant format to read / write the...
I was thinking it might be instructive to see some of the "classic" compsci examples in Component Pascal, like Knights Tour and Eight Queens, and maybe some...
... compsci examples in Component Pascal, like Knights Tour and Eight Queens, and maybe some stuff with linked lists & map negotiation. ... if you are not...
Hi All Soon as I go on holiday, the mail group runs wild! Marc raises an interesting question. The brief answer is: no gpcp has not reached the end of its...
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... That's good to hear that there will be some future development! It seems that development has slowed down on both GPCP *and* Blackbox. ... Well, I...
... Actually, I can live with inter-language calls being single dimension arrays (I can do any multi-dimensional index mapping in my code). I thought that the...
... all I ... and have ... Fair enough. What about Marc's other question? "And if one specifies "FOREIGN MODULE", is there any need to also have a "-special"...
As noted in a message in the Blackbox mailing list, there is an inconsistency on the GPCP website. "GPCP is still under development and is changing quite...
... Examples to copy a text file, split a textfile into a number of subfiles with a given number of lines, and to merge a group of textfiles into one are now...
Thanks for all the new examples, Chris! I'll take a look as time permits. ... Yes, I meant drop-down list (former Mac user), and I did notice that there was...
Robert Campbell sent me this message: ====================================== The GPCP code that crashes on loading is: MODULE GpFmtrs; VAR preFixes : ARRAY...
Hi All currently GPCP does not support unicode, and even has problems with non-ascii characters in identifiers. Upgrading the compiler is a possible future...
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... version of ... there is a ... Hi John, The installer also objects to the 64-bit version of WinXP. Are there any issues running GPCP on Win64? Also what...
... is a possible future change. ... Hi Thanks for your comments about Unicode support. My main concern is ASCII support. Mu (ASCII B5) is part of the BlackBox...
Hi All Just an update on the situation with ISO 8859-1, that is, the Latin-1 extension of usascii. Up to version 1.3.4 the scanner and IL-writer of gpcp were...
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Hello The issue of using pointers that had not been explicity set to NIL in the source code was discussed about a year ago, but I found the outcome slightly...
Hi All The situation is that the compiler gives an error for all cases where local (scalar) variables are not provably initialized. OK, so what do I mean by...
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... So does that mean that it is impossible for the compiler to conform to the Component Pascal report and also be verifiable code? Or are these simply...
Hi All Robert is correct: there has been an element of miscommunication. First let me deal with Robert's examples: With HeapInteger and HeapPointer NEW...