Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises

[atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler)]

In article <835658834snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk writes:
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>> (Historical note: Apples (and other machines I recall) denoted hex
>> with a dollar sign in front.  So, $300 was 768 decimal.)
>
>Pascal still does,  AFAIK.
>
You are confusing Pascal, as defined by the standard, with some other
language that looks something like Pascal.  This is common because
standard Pascal is so restrictive that very little useful work can be
accomplished.  In Pascal the only place a "$" can be used is between
"'" characters of a char constant or char array value.  Even that is
iffy since there is no guarentee that "$" is in the set of
implementation supported characters.