Re: Half-Adjust with /free

> No, the reason %DEC(...:%LEN():%DECPOS()) doesn't work is because of a
> compiler limitation. All of us on the compiler development team have
> tried *and failed* to get this to work properly. Barbara came the
> closest to a real fix, but it just wasn't quite there yet. So, unless we
> can do a major rewrite of the expression handling, this truly annoying
> restriction stays in place.

Okay, but this explanation just tells me that you can't get it to work, it
doesn't tell me why it doesn't work.

My interpretation of the previous thread on this topic was that you
couldn't get it to work because with the way expressions are currently
handled, you need to know the size of the temporary location that the
expression uses at compile time -- and you can't use %len() for this
because it's value isn't known at compile time.

If that's not the the case, then I guess I don't understand the reason why
you can't get it working. (Not that I necessarily have to understand...)