Description
As an extension to Standard Pascal, Irie Pascal supports list types. List types define ordered collections of values of a single type (called the list's component type). Each value in a list type's collection is identified by it's position in the collection. Unlike file types the values in a list type's collection are NOT persistent (i.e. they are not stored when your program is not running).
The size of the collection of values defined by a list type (i.e. the number of values in the collection) is potentially unlimited. List types do not impose any limit on the size of their collections. In practice the maximum size of a list type's collection is determined by the amount of memory available to your program.
Example
Here are some examples of list types
list of integer;
list of char;Below is a simple example program that uses a list to store and sort random integer values.
program listexample(output);
var
l : list of integer;
i : integer;
procedure SortList;
var
i, temp : integer;
swapped : boolean;
begin
writeln('Sorting...');
//Bubble sort the list
repeat
swapped := false;
for i := 1 to length(l)-1 do
begin
if l[i] > l[i+1] then
begin
temp := l[i];
l[i] := l[i+1];
l[i+1] := temp;
swapped := true;
end
end;
until not swapped;
end;
begin
randomize; //initialize random number generator
new(l);
//Insert 100 random integer values into the list
for i := 1 to 100 do
insert(random(1000), l);
//Sort the values in the list
SortList;
//Output the values in the list
for i := 1 to length(l) do
writeln(l[i]);
dispose(l);
end.Syntax
The syntax for defining new list types is given below:
(NOTE: for clarity some parts of the syntax are omitted, see Irie Pascal Grammar for the full syntax):
list-type = 'list' 'of' component-type
component-type = type-denoter
domain-type = type-identifier
new-ordinal-type = enumerated-type | subrange-type
new-pointer-type = '^' domain-type | '@' domain-type
new-structured-type =
[ 'packed' ] array-type |
[ 'packed' ] record-type |
[ 'packed' ] set-type |
[ 'packed' ] file-type |
[ 'packed' ] list-type |
object-type |
string-type
new-type = new-ordinal-type | new-structured-type | new-pointer-type
type-denoter = type-identifier | new-type
type-identifier = identifier