HP SunSoft Pascal 4.0 - Manual (Page 235)

Error Diagnostics 211
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Thus, if you try to assign an integer value to a char variable, you receive a
diagnostic as follows:
In this case, one error produces a two-line error message. If the same error
occurs more than once, the same explanatory diagnostic is given each time.
The scalar Class
The only class whose meaning is not self-explanatory is scalar . It has a
precise meaning in the Pascal standard where it refers to char , integer , and
boolean types as well as the enumerated types. For the purposes of the
Pascal compiler, scalar in an error message refers to a user-defined
enumerated type, such as color in:
type color = (red, green, blue)
For integers, the more precise denotation integer is used.
Procedure and Function Type Errors
For built-in procedures and functions, two kinds of errors may occur. If a
routine is called with the wrong number of arguments, a message similar to the
following is displayed:
If the type of an argument is wrong, you receive a message similar to the
following:
Mon Feb 13 13:16:20 1995 inchar.p:
E 25190 line 6 - Type clash: integer is incompatible with char
... 25560: Type of expression clashed with type of variable in assignment
Mon Feb 13 13:21:26 1995 sin.p:
E 10010 line 6 - Builtin function SIN takes exactly 1 argument
Mon Feb 13 13:31:14 1995 abs.p:
E 10180 line 8 - Argument to ABS must be of type integer or real, not char