In <[email protected]>, on 11/06/2010
at 04:04 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>I believe that REXX only directly supports one of those two
>mechanisms, namely the symbol table lookup and not true indexed
>arrays.
Correct, although Object Oriented Rexx (OOREXX) has true arrays.
>The distinction made is
>rather one of whether the original variable domains consist of
>consecutive integer values or not.
There's also the issue of trapping subscripts that are out of range.
>But, functionally,
>indexed arrays are just a special subset of symbol table lookup:
Not in a language that includes bounds checking.
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