RE: SUBFILE FOR NON DISPLAY PROGRAMMING....

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

 >> There's really no reason that we have to define the number of elements in an
array. The compiler should just extend it  when it needs to.

While I agree that a means to dynamically size arrays is useful - I disagree
with the automatic approach.  I don't want an array that should never grow
beyond 200 entries suddenly growing to 5,000 because of a data/programming
error.  I would much rather have the ability to reset the top of the array when
I need it to grow.  In fact I am happy enough to manage the memory myself (using
ALLOC etc.) and simply be able to do something like this:

 If        Count > %Elem(MyArray)
 Eval      %Elem(MyArray) = %Elem(MyArray) + 20
 Eval      Memory = %Elem(MyArray) * %Size(MyArray)
 ReAlloc   Memory        MyArrayPtr
 EndIf


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