No worries, Jon... I didn't either interpret Dennis suggestion as converting revolution to c++ ;-) (I appreciate the value of his comments -- I even recently voted for Dennis' last suggestion on stack scope variable).
I just wanted to voice the other perspective. Adding new array declarations and new array manipulations features, I vote for. This would indeed be most useful for image processing. However, revolution is primarily a 4GL and a 4GL (high level programming language) as inherent limitations. With a 4GL, you loose in sheer speed in terms of data crunching. But you win in speed in ease of use and data manipulation of reasonably-sized projects. Add-ons, externals, new functions in revolution, all that is welcome... provided that there is never an attempt to go down from 4GL to 3GL or less. I prefer a program that is slow when asked to manipulate 1000x1000 matrices than a program that is slow and dumb in all other tasks. Back to the idea that not single tool is best for all jobs. ------------------ I did not interpret Dennis' suggestion as meaning that ALL arrays would henceforth ONLY have integer indices; rather, I think he was suggesting that a NEW type of array be created which had this attribute. All of the old code would still work. :) Jon _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution