I refer to the tendency of programmers new to rexx stems, but familiar with hll arrays, to reduce their (non-numerical) problem to one of integral indices into arrays rather than make full use of the rexx stem facility.
i ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:29:58 AM COT From: Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Multi-dimensional arrays in REXX > Ian S. Worthington wrote: > > It implements them as a conceptual subset of stems, and they are indexed with > > strings rather than by integers which actually makes them rather more powerful > > once one breaks out of the array mindset. > > "All generalities are false" (?) > > I'm not sure what you mean by the "array mindset"? Do you > seriously advocate solving a determinant by defining it as > DET.ONE.ONE, DET.ONE.TWO, etc. rather than DET.1.1, etc.? I > don't consider this a mindset, but rather a prudent approach > (and I realize that the computation in ForTran or PL/I would be > faster, but could also be less accurate). > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, VT > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
