Conditional Array Definitions

[GCC Consulting]

I am top posting for John.

AOL wants it to look nice.  They don't care about those of you who don't have
e-mail clients that can't read formatted text.

By the way, I considered sending this as John had it formatted, but reconsidered
as most of you would have had difficulty reading this.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting 

 


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	From: filepro-list-bounces+gcc=optonline.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+gcc=optonline.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
John Esak
	Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 7:14 PM
	To: Fplist (E-mail)
	Subject: RE: Conditional Array Definitions
	
	
	It's amazing, but my initial investigations show that 9.0 AOL can NOT
send text messages.  Sheesh, what a design decision that is. 
	 
	Good luck,
	 
	John
	 

		-----Original Message-----
		From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Transpower at aol.com
		Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:39 PM
		To: kenbrody at bestweb.net
		Cc: filepro-list at seaslug.org
		Subject: Re: Conditional Array Definitions
		
		
		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