sequence length allocation
I run the following simple program:
sequence s
s =3D "hell"
s[5] =3D 'o'
Most of you will immediately recognize that there is an error here, becau=
se
I allegedly assigned a fifth value to a length 4 sequence. Well, I plead=
guilty, but I appeal because this should not be illegal. Sure, I can use=
append, but the above syntax seems a lot more straightforward. What woul=
d
we loose? Also, I still have a initialize every sequence and specify at
least an initial length. This is not complete dynamic storage allocation=
,
to me.
At least, I feel there should be a sequence initialized as an indefinite
length.
In Euphoria, I still have to initialize the sequence, and tell Euphoria
what length it should be initially. There are tools to append and prepen=
d,
but that only masks the truth that we still have to tell Euphoria what th=
e
length of the sequence is. It seems that if I have a database, with one
sequence with each sub-sequence being a record, I could just simply do
something like this:
s[length(s)+1] =3D new record
I feel this is a more direct approach, than append could ever be. =
Although, it is possible that C, which Euphoria is written in, forces
Euphoria to be like this.
Just a thought.
Alan
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