need help with pascal programming

[shiftyape]

how do i force a pascal program to end?

 

[Deleted member 904905]

It's bad form to force a program to end. The proper way is to let it run off the end of it's main procedure after cleaning up after itself.

 

[Ijack]

Whilst that is good advice, there are times when it can be useful to end a program prematurely. The lack of exception handling in Pascal means that this is sometimes better than constructing a convoluted structure. In C this is handled by the "return" statement; the nearest equivalent in Pascal is the "halt" statement.

 

[Deleted member 904905]

Freepascal, which for all intents and purposes is Borland Delphi, does not lack exception handling.

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref.html
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch17.html#x204-21400017

 

[Ijack]

Once we start talking about object-oriented programming the design imperatives become very different. My reply related to standard classic Pascal.