OpenEuphoria

• Posted by bensler at mail.com Mar 22, 2002
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I came up with this type definition for arrays.
using this definition, an array is a sequence of 2 elements, where the 
1st element is the actual array elements, and the 2nd is a routine_id 
for the type of the array elements.

global type array(sequence s)
   if length(s)=2 and sequence(s[1]) and integer(s[2]) then
      for i = 1 to length(s[1]) do
         if not call_func(s[2],{s[1][i]}) then return 0 end if
      end for
      return 1
   end if
   return 0
end type

type sequence_(integer b)
   return 1
end type

array test   test={{},routine_id("sequence_")} -- a string
test[1] = "This is a test"

puts(1,test[1])
while get_key()=-1 do end while
<END DEMO>


Just thought I would share it because I could see it being quite useful.

Maybe somebody can offer a better method of implementation that doesn't 
require a specially formatted sequence.


Chris