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Subject: Re: Array Index: substitute integer with enumeration
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 17:16:42 +0200
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On 6/4/20 7:49 PM, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
> 1. If you can get your code to compile, you can check the object code to 
> see.
> 
It ends here. I thought index types with the same length were 
convertible, but learned now that they aren't. Moreover, 'Pos is an 
attribute not of a variable, but of a type, what makes the expressions 
still more clumsy. So, If I don't want to fumble around with numbers, I 
have to define integer constants for the indices.
> 
> Seems to me that with a design like
> Unfortunately the type is defined in an external library, so I cannot 
change it.
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