Re: pascal equivalent of python "sleep"

thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> dialect of Pascal, but seemingly not in the standard. The functions
> setjmp and longjmp can be used to emulate an exception handling
> that is missing in C and standard Pascal. You already mentioned

This is provided by interprocedure gotos in Pascal.


> Not really as shown above.
> BTW. A quick look at the Seed7 do***entation of the predefined
> types (at: http://seed7.sourceforge.net/manual/types.htm)
> revealed that they define
> 
>  100 operators (like + - * / div, rem, mdiv, mod, and, or, not)
>   84 relations (like < > <= >= = <>)
>  192 functions (like pred, succ, abs, atan2, compare, hashCode)
>   79 statements and procedures (like read, write, for)
>   19 assignment statements ( := )
> 

No argument. Pascal loses in any contest of language complexity
and number of declared standard functions. Hands down.

Scott