Kevin_P86
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Registered: 06-28-2005
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As VortexSurfer pointed out here, variable arrays would be very helpful.

I would agree that arrays are a very good idea. And like other scripting languages, they would not need to be "real" arrays. All that would need to happen is to have the variable name

array[index]

mapped to the variable name

array_index

(or some other similar thing). And, perhaps even multi-dimensional arrays, which are treated similarily:

array[index1][index2]

is mapped to

array_index1_index2

for example.

In this case, you do not need to "declare" an array, or specify a size for an array, etc. Essentially, this can be thought of just a more flexible way to describe variable names (specifically, using variables as part of a variable name).

This also causes no problems with subscript errors (since a reference to an undeclared variable creates it), and would allow much more flexible arrays (i.e. arrays could be indexed by a string, if you like).

Thoughts?

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