Nope, you're not alone. The topic pops up, in one form or another, every couple of weeks or so. Sounds like you understand the concept now.
Good luck. Mike --- In [email protected], "sidhartha70" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Mike. > > So it seems I'm not the only one coming from more 'traditional' > languages to struggle with this concept. > > The bottom line it seems is that you cannot recursively alter the > value of any array by referencing other values of that array... at > least not directly. > > > --- In [email protected], "Mike" <sfclimbers@> wrote: > > > > Read thread #122034 for a similar discussion, including explanation. > > > > Mike > > > > --- In [email protected], "sidhartha70" <sidhartha70@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Can someone clear this up for me... I am simply trying to cumulate > > the > > > value of an array. My intial thoughts were to do something like the > > > following, > > > > > > Value1=0; > > > Value2=log(Close); > > > Value1=Ref(Value1,-1)+Value2; > > > > > > However, that doesn't seem to work... So I've ended up with, > > > > > > Value2=log(Close); > > > Value1=Cum(Value2); > > > > > > Which does seem to work. I can't see why the first doesn't. > > > > > > Can anyone explain...? Thanks > > > > > >
