Re: API receiver variable limit

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> Is there a better way? (I hope so!)  Should I use C? (sigh)

No need to use C although for a situation like this I would tend to use
dynamic memory and Alloc the amount I needed for the structure in question.
That way you are ensured of contiguous storage.  Right now I'm pretty
certain that the compiler will always place a MODS in a contiguous area,
but in theory at least there is no reason why it has to.  Besides - why
"waste" storage just-in-case it ever gets to (whatever) size?  Just Alloc
what you need when you need it.

Remember - the size of a field is only used to reserve storage, control
moves and to check limits for substrings etc.- if you're using dynamic
memory it only needs to be defined as being as large as the biggest single
element you will ever reference within it.

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