This may be over-simplified, but couldn't you define a DateRange structure? Or 
would that not provide the constraints you need?


Lee
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On 01/27/2015 08:02 PM, adamn...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hmm, I've never tried this before.
>
> Suppose a function GetCurrent(DateRange as Date[]),  now intuitively 
> DateRange is an array of 2 dates. No-one would be silly enough to pass an 
> array with more than two elements would they?  My cynical nature says yes 
> they could/would.
>
> I could ignore the array length and just use DateRange[0] and DateRange[1] as 
> the limits but that may produce confusing outcomes, or an error if DateRange 
> contains only one element.
>
> I would like to define the function as GetCurrent(DateRange as Date[2]) but 
> this is apparently a syntax error.
>
> Obviously, in this trivialised example, I could check the bounds of the 
> passed array in the function body, I just expected that the runtime would  
> check an explicitly sized array parameter. The real function is (of course) 
> much more complex. The function requires an array of Dates[3][2] and another 
> 5 parameters, some of which are optional.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Bruce
>

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