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Re: Why is RESET not allowed for a DS that is based?

Hi Rob,


Why is RESET not allowed for a DS that is based?
RESET sets the contents of a variable back to the value that it had during the intialization of the program. Since a BASED data structure can't be initialized at that point, there's no way to reset it back to the values that existed at that point. 


Which also begs the question:  Why is inz not allowed in a based data
structure?
Because values have to be stored in memory. If your data structure is BASED, then it has no memory until you point it at something. Therefore, there's no place to store the initial values, because there's no memory associated with them yet.

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