Contents

 
• List of Tables
  • About this guide
    • Notations
    • Syntax diagrams
• The Pascal language
  • Pascal Tokens
    • Symbols
    • Comments
    • Reserved words
      • Turbo Pascal reserved words
      • Delphi reserved words
      • Free Pascal reserved words
      • Modifiers
    • Identifiers
    • Numbers
    • Labels
    • Character strings
  • Constants
    • Ordinary constants
    • Typed constants
  • Types
    • Base types
      • Ordinal types
        • Integers
        • Boolean types
        • Enumeration types
        • Subrange types
      • Real types
    • Character types
      • Char
      • Short Strings
      • PChar
    • Structured Types
      • Arrays
      • Record types
      • Set types
      • File types
    • Pointers
    • Procedural types
  • Objects
    • Declaration
    • Fields
    • Constructors and destructors
    • Methods
    • Method invocation
      • Static methods
      • Virtual methods
      • Abstract methods
    • Visibility
  • Classes
    • Class definitions
    • Class instantiation
    • Methods
    • Properties
  • Expressions
    • Expression syntax
    • Function calls
    • Set constructors
    • Value typecasts
    • The @ operator
    • Operators
      • Arithmetic operators
      • Logical operators
      • Boolean operators
      • String operators
      • Set operators
      • Relational operators
  • Statements
    • Simple statements
      • Assignments
      • Procedure statements
      • Goto statements
    • Structured statements
      • Compound statements
      • The Case statement
      • The If..then..else statement
      • The For..to/downto..do statement
      • The Repeat..until statement
      • The While..do statement
      • The With statement
      • Exception Statements
    • Assembler statements
  • Using functions and procedures
    • Procedure declaration
    • Function declaration
    • Parameter lists
      • Value parameters
      • var parameters
      • Const parameters
      • Open array parameters
    • Function overloading
    • forward defined functions
    • External functions
    • Assembler functions
    • Modifiers
      • Public
      • cdecl
      • popstack
      • Export
      • StdCall
      • Alias
    • Unsupported Turbo Pascal modifiers
  • Programs, units, blocks
    • Programs
    • Units
    • Blocks
    • Scope
      • Block scope
      • Record scope
      • Class scope
      • Unit scope
  • Exceptions
    • The raise statement
    • The try...except statement
    • The try...finally statement
    • Exception handling nesting
    • Exception classes
  • Using assembler
    • Assembler statements
    • Assembler procedures and functions
• Reference : The System unit
  • The system unit
    • Types, Constants and Variables
      • Types
      • Constants
      • Variables
    • Functions and Procedures
      • Abs
      • Addr
      • Append
      • Arctan
      • Assign
      • Blockread
      • Blockwrite
      • Chdir
      • Chr
      • Close
      • Concat
      • Copy
      • Cos
      • CSeg
      • Dec
      • Delete
      • Dispose
      • DSeg
      • Eof
      • Eoln
      • Erase
      • Exit
      • Exp
      • Filepos
      • Filesize
      • Fillchar
      • Fillword
      • Flush
      • Frac
      • Freemem
      • Getdir
      • Getmem
      • Halt
      • Hi
      • High
      • Inc
      • Insert
      • Int
      • IOresult
      • Length
      • Ln
      • Lo
      • LongJmp
      • Low
      • Lowercase
      • Mark
      • Maxavail
      • Memavail
      • Mkdir
      • Move
      • New
      • Odd
      • Ofs
      • Ord
      • Paramcount
      • Paramstr
      • Pi
      • Pos
      • Power
      • Pred
      • Ptr
      • Random
      • Randomize
      • Read
      • Readln
      • Release
      • Rename
      • Reset
      • Rewrite
      • Rmdir
      • Round
      • Runerror
      • Seek
      • SeekEof
      • SeekEoln
      • Seg
      • SetJmp
      • SetTextBuf
      • Sin
      • SizeOf
      • Sptr
      • Sqr
      • Sqrt
      • SSeg
      • Str
      • Succ
      • Swap
      • Trunc
      • Truncate
      • Upcase
      • Val
      • Write
      • WriteLn
• Index
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