Yes, this is a good idea. I think it thwarts length() and low() but since I'm using two dimensional arrays, these aren't helpful...
I'm not a fluent OOP programmer, but I'm already using a record to record the real rows and columns, matrix name, etc. so I think I'm going to wrap these open arrays in an object so that I can supply replacements for these and other methods and it would be easy to hide this wrinkle inside the object. -Alan --- "Cox, Stuart TRAN:EX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would not allocating the dynamic arrays a single element greater in > size not > permit you to address their elements the way you'd like. > I.e.: for a five element array, allocate size 6 and get [0..5] and > then use > only [1..5]? Just pretend that the [0] position doesn't exist. > Of Course, you'd have to be careful with low(x) as the index > starting spot. > If this is too easy what am I missing? > > Stu > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas > Maebe > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Two simple dynamic arrays questions > > > > On 28 jul 2004, at 19:48, Alan Mead wrote: > > > (1) Previously, I had fillchar'd the static arrays with zeros > because > > they are sparse-ish. Looks like dynamic arrays are automagically > > > filled with zeros. Is this true/permanent? > > Yes. > > > (2) There is no way, I supposed, to switch the array indexes to > start > > at 1 is there? > > No, there is unfortunately no way to do this. > > > Jonas > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
