[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

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In article <841537a9-2fd0-4f8b-b6ff-a2cd022c7683 at googlegroups.com>, osuvman50 at gmail.com writes:
>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 ''?).

In bash, it's:

Array[i][j] = x

Not all that much of a deal in DCL:

Array'i''j' = x


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