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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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