Conditional Array Definitions

[Transpower at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/27/2004 6:18:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kenbrody at bestweb.net writes:

> I didn't see the message to which John is replying, but...
> 
> I see nothing "counter-intuitive" about declarations being just that.
> They declare the variable.  They do not generate any code.  They do not
> need to be executed.
> 
> And, excluding Visual BASIC's "DIM" command, nothing else comes to mind
> as an example of "most other computer languages" where you must actually
> execute a variable declaration.  (Not that I've thought about it very
> hard, mind you.)
> 
> 

Ken:

Well, filePro processing was roughly based on Basic...
In TrueBASIC, one uses a DIM statement at the beginning, usually setting an 
array to  minimal dimensions (i.e., 1); then, in the body of the code, a MAT 
REDIM statement is inserted to resize the array to fit the current running 
problem.  This is probably what the original poster had in mind.

I've checked through some of my existing filePro commercial code and cannot 
find any place where I've conditionally DIM'd an array by itself.  I did find 
one place where I did that along with setting other variables on the same line. 
 No harm, no foul, I guess.  There is no syntax error or warning message if 
one defines an array with an If statement.  Something like: "Note:  the array 
will be defined whether the condition is true or not."  The only downside is an 
increase in memory, which given the tremendous amount of RAM in existing 
computers, is not a problem...at lease most of the time.

As far as HTML mail, I'm using whatever AOL 8.0 mails; my AOL 9.0 program 
crashed a long time ago--some C language DLL seems to be corrupted and 
uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't correct the problem.  If I could configure AOL 8.0 
to send out plain text I certainly would.

Regards,
RWS
transpower at aol.com
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