Various suggestions for enhancements/changes to the Pascal standards

If you have comments, suggestions, opinions, etc. about future Pascal standards work, please speak up! Send them to the committee and we'll put them on the agenda. However, to be honest, without a person who has an interest in the new feature, they tend to dry up and die. So, if you REALLY want a feature in the Pascal standards, be prepared to write up CONVINCING arguments about standarizing. I'll warn you now not to bias them to any particular system or hardware. If what you suggest won't work (at least conceptually) on all machines from Crays, Alphas, Pentiums, OS/2, OpenVMS, DOS, NT, PowerMacs, etc., then you'll have a very hard time to get it in the standard. You don't have to prove that its implementable (although it helps) or even easy to implement... That doesn't mean that you can't suggest something that is implementation defined (MAXINT for example), but such a feature better have some redeeming reason to be included in the standard.