Re: Converting Pascal to C++, C# or VB

  Steve wrote:
>
> So far the main obstacle I can see with C++ is the nested routines
> of Pascal. I don't know of any way to do this in C++.


There are relatively straightforward ways to compile these, but they
are generally fairly annoying to do, and not a good idea if you hope
to maintain the translated source rather than use C++ as a target
language.


> Initial investigation suggests that the struct in C# might be a
> suitable alternative. It has to allow access to constants, types and
> variables declared in an outer scope.
>
> We also have a few instances of Pascal procedural parameters. Can
> these be emulated?


Both of these can be very easily translated to C# using delegates,
which is what C# calls first-class functions.


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Neel Krishnaswami
neelk@cs.cmu.edu

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