[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

osuvman50 at gmail.com osuvman50 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 10:38:28 EDT 2017


On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 9:08:50 AM UTC-4, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <770567ee-5f37-4e67-b128-e3ca20989e98 at googlegroups.com>, osuvman50 at gmail.com writes:
> > 
> > I said clean way, embedding the index in the symbol name is an ugly hack.  And doing a(b(i)) requires intermediate symbols.
> 
>    No, it's a beautiful hack.
> 
>    Now, define "clean".

Clean means an array is readily identifiable as an array via declaration (i.e.
dimension statement) and not something inferred by examining the usage.  Plus, the less symbol substitution syntax the better (do i need ' here or ''?).



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