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vegipete

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Posted: 05:26am 06 Mar 2021

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The statement

DIM arry(2)=(16,17,21)

is valid.

Is there any reason why

arry()=(17,17,11)

couldn't also be valid, or is that just too perverse?

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Posted: 08:24am 06 Mar 2021

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Quote or is that just too perverse?

Not perverse but not implemented and won't be

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Posted: 10:31am 06 Mar 2021

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vegipete said The statement

DIM arry(2)=(16,17,21)

is valid.

Is there any reason why

arry()=(17,17,11)

couldn't also be valid, or is that just too perverse?

Think what extra work would be required to recognise (parse) that :(

As it starts out, it looks like a function call to arry. If it's not seen the name arry before it adds it to the internal data structures as a function. Then it finds the "=" and ... yuck.

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Posted: 01:22pm 06 Mar 2021

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vegipete said The statement

DIM arry(2)=(16,17,21)

is valid.

Is there any reason why

arry()=(17,17,11)

couldn't also be valid, or is that just too perverse?

I know, it's not exactly the same, but I have already used:

OPTION BASE 0
OPTION DEFAULT NONE
OPTION EXPLICIT

DIM INTEGER arry(2) = (16,17,21)
printA(arry())
setA(arry(), "17,17,11")
printA(arry())
END
SUB printA(q() AS INTEGER)
LOCAL INTEGER i, b = BOUND(q())

FOR i = 0 TO b
?q(i),
NEXT i
?
END SUB

SUB setA(q() AS INTEGER, nq AS STRING)
LOCAL STRING nv
LOCAL INTEGER i

FOR i = 0 TO BOUND(q())
nv = FIELD$(nq, i+1, ",")
IF nv <> "" THEN
q(i) = VAL(nv)
ELSE
ERROR "Not enough values"
ENDIF
NEXT i
END SUB

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vegipete

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Posted: 05:39pm 06 Mar 2021

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matherp said Not perverse but not implemented and won't be

That's OK.

The following works as a straight forward enough substitute:

a = 16 : b = 17 : c = 18
dim arry(2)=(a,b,c)

<some time later...>

erase arry() : dim arry(2)=(c,b,a)

The only nuisance is that you can't erase a variable that hasn't previously been dimmed into existence.

In my case, I need to re-initialize starting values in the array, so I can use constant values, instead of variables:

dim arry(2)=(1,2,3)

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Edited 2021-03-07 04:07 by vegipete

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