Sadly, Turing can't handle flexible arrays within records. It's one of Turing's biggest problems, in my opinion.
The best you can do is declare a big hoinking static array (
) and use an index variable to keep track of the "upper" of it.Computer Science Canada record syntax. |
| Author: | Justin_ [ Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:43 pm ] | ||
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Hi, is there anything wrong with this code:
it says syntax error at "flexible" |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:54 pm ] |
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Sadly, Turing can't handle flexible arrays within records. It's one of Turing's biggest problems, in my opinion. The best you can do is declare a big hoinking static array ( ) and use an index variable to keep track of the "upper" of it. |
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| Author: | Justin_ [ Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:31 pm ] |
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how unfortunate  yeah the static array will have to do. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:01 pm ] |
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Cervantes wrote: Sadly, Turing can't handle flexible arrays within records. It's one of Turing's biggest problems, in my opinion.
How would you go about implementing it? Suddenly you'll have a record type of arbitrary length. There will be a whole bunch of problems with reserving a correct amount of space and then adjusting it on per-record basis. If you are dealing with a lot of data and do want to have it stored in a flexible array, you could declear it outside of the record definition, and point to it from within the record. |
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| Author: | MysticVegeta [ Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:41 pm ] |
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Well what you could have is a record inside a record. |
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| Author: | codemage [ Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:41 pm ] |
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Why jump through so many hoops to use a special Turing shortcut? Flexible arrays are just a Turing-specific training-wheels-enabled version of dynamic lists. |
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