Sven Barth wrote:
We're heading off topic, no disrespect to Bernd intended.
With the compiler as it stands, I've been able to define e.g.
<variant> + <dynamic array>, define a variant constant "reduce", and
then do e.g. a := reduce + b where b is an array. Which was all fine
except that (at least when I last looked) there wasn't a compact
notation for initialising a dynamic array, i.e. no b := (1, 2, 3, 4).
Interesting idea to "misuse" a Variant for that :)
It was the only numeric type I could get to work that way, but I didn't
try e.g. a type defined as an empty record which might be more appropriate.
If you have a named dynamic array type then you can use
"TMyArrayType.Create(1, 2, 3, 4)", though this only exists in Trunk
(reason: Delphi compatibility). My idea was to implement a Pascal like
way for this somewhen which would use "b := [1, 2, 3, 4]" (because in
code sections arrays are normally done using "[...]" instead of "(...)"
(which is used in constant sections)).
[Nod] Yes, the hack I described above was done at about the time we were
discussing that sort of thing which was also when I came across Vector
Pascal... which actually has some nice ideas.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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