Comet 32 Arrays


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Posted by Jim Guerber on April 09, 2011 at 09:53:59:

In Reply to: Comet 32 - Arrays in Common posted by Les Toeplitz on April 09, 2011 at 08:39:15:

Les,

Thanks to your nice test programs, we have spent the last week working over arrays in comet32, and are now testing all aspects we can think of to make sure arrays are fully supported. Build 435 will contain these changes and will be available next week.

Arrays WILL work in Comet32 in all the ways you expect, Providing that all programs involved are compiled with the comet32 compiler (COSM32). Let me explain...

Comet32 objects support arrays with subscripts starting with zero, Comet16 arrays start with subscript one. You are free to ignore those extra elements, but Comet can't. The real problem comes with multi dimensional arrays.

There are a few limitations, however:

For the sake of compatibility, a read or write statement referring to a format with a repetition factor and length will skip over array elements where any subscript is zero. Thus, your comet16 programs recompiled in comet32 should work the same without necessitating any recoding on your part.

Any c32 program that deals with arrays should be recompiled. Comet will remind you that this is needed by giving you an error 74 if it encounters an array reference.

Common passing between comet16 programs and comet32 programs containing MULTI dimensional arrays won't pass the array. If both programs are comet16 or comet32, common passing will work fine. Single dimension arrays will be passed between c16 and c32 programs, although the zeroth element will be lost.

Again, thanks for the test programs and support. I hope I have explained this situation thoroughly enough. If you have any further questions, you know where to find me ;-)


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