Richard Zidlicky writes: > > But if all this could be built into the EX command in a future version of SMSQ/E, then it would be a different matter entirely... > > this would not improve much, it would still be only accessible from basic > and not c68 programs. In SBasic you already have ways to build command > line strings very flexibly anyway..
It could be written as an extension Thing - accessable for all. Of course, for SB the 32k string length limit would still have to apply for it to be transparent to existing code. I think, on the whole, it would be more sensible for programs that expect an unknown - possibly vast - quantity of items as in my original example, to be more elegantly written with that in mind.. Per