[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2017-07-11 15:11:58 +0000, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:

> 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

Until you have cases such as i = 1 and j = 11, and i = 11 and j = 1, in 
your example.   Yes, there are ways around that.   And down the 
syntactic sugar rabbit hole we go....


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