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"mlazarus=Z876VzW3xUs@public.gmane.org" wrote: >> 1. As someone already pointed out in this thread, the bifs often don't work exactly the same way as the opcodes. Doing a conversion would usually require some recoding and would always require a lot of testing. > > I think that that would be less of an issue, since most do work the same. Actually, most don't work the same. There are little differences. For example - LOOKUP sets %FOUND but %LOOKUP doesn't. - XLATE doesn't change the size of a varying result field but assigning %XLATE to something does, because EVAL does.
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