Re: [BLACKBOX] ARRAY as CONSTANT

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:10:13 -0000

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I venture to suggest that the reason for omitting it is to keep the
compiler as simple as possible, within the spirit of Oberon.

Consider the complexity required to be able to compile a constant
array of arbitrary length (what would the maximum length be? why?)
consisting possibly of RECORD structures which might in turn contain
nested arrays of arbitrary complexity (including pointers!).

While I don't suppose it's impossible, I imagine it would be an awful
lot of complexity for very little gain.

Regards
Bob

> -----Original Message-----
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> Rex Couture
> Sent: 11 February 2008 21:48
> To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] ARRAY as CONSTANT
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> Try using multiple X-ray absorption edge energies and
> other parameters for 92+ chemical elements, and putting all
> that information in a single executable file. Occasionally
> that sort of thing can come in very handy, and I have a lot
> of data encoded in Pascal and Delphi libraries. I don't
> usually like to read initial data from files, even if there
> are some advantages in doing so.
>
> However, we all know that getting a change in a
> computer language is next to impossible.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rex Couture, Ph. D.
> Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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