Re: Compiler directives

> {$I+} Have had to use this when using type "Text" and
> OpenFile/Reset/Rewrite functions.

This is a legacy feature left over from UCSD Pascal that I remember being
taught in 1981. This really is a stupid way to handle exceptions and error
values. I know Wirth didn't like exceptions, and preferred error value, but
this third alternative surely offends almost everyone.

Oliver Townshend


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