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From: bert@gufalet.UUCP (Bert Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Arrays in languages (was: Anyone want to design a language?)
Message-ID: <797@gufalet.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 16:05:37 GMT
References: <3528@tukki.jyu.fi> <14251@lambda.UUCP> <8836@boring.cwi.nl> <14255@lambda.UUCP> <8849@boring.cwi.nl> <9230@wpi.wpi.edu>
Organization: Faculty of Arts, Groningen, The Netherlands
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In article <9230@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>(the nicest array language I've ever used was a version of BASIC which didn't
>have a DIM statement but which handled arrays of arbitrary dimension and size.
>I.E., you could just say 'A(1,5,10)=7' and it would allocate the array for
>you.  You could then say 'A(1,5,10,8)=9' and it would make the element
>A(1,5,10) contain a sub-array... Is there any other language with this power? 

Awk can do this too (and more...)