interesting array "Feature"?

["Christen, Duane J." <dchristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans, Barb, ...
 
I just came across an interesting bug in my code. (see below)  I have a
function which returns a value and assigning that value to an array element.
I had not indexed the array correctly so the function was being "called" for
each element. It was finally failing because not all of the storage for the
array was allocated. I assume, altho I have not tried it, that if the array
would have been fully allocated that all elements would have been assigned a
return value from individual function calls.
 
The question would be: Is this an intended feature and can I expect this
result in the future? 
I'm currently on V5R2M0.
 
 
/Free // This code calls the buildFunctionStruct-Procedure for each
task.FunctionStructure element
 
task.FunctionStructure = buildFunctionStruct(taskName);
 
/End-Free
 
/Free // This is the corrected code which calls the
buildFunctionStruct-Procedure once (my intended result)
 
task.FunctionStructure(x) = buildFunctionStruct(taskName);
 
/End-Free
 
 
Duane
 
 
 



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