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From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
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Subject: Re: More about BASIC vs. Pascal vs. C (the flame war continues !)
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Date: 19 Feb 91 17:47:46 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.131220.7801@vax1.tcd.ie> hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie writes:

>Just out of interest, is there an equivalent of the BASIC 'DATA', 'READ',
>and 'RESTORE' constructs in C, PASCAL, or MODULA2?

You don't do it in the same way. In C, you would use static initialised
structures (ie. a structure which already has data values put into
it at compile time). This is much more efficient to access than DATA
statements (a single LDR instruction for an integer value) and all the
values can be randomly accessed at any time whereas READ is inherently
sequential in nature. You can also over-write the initial values at
runtime without any difficulty.

Owen.

(PS. Please can people stop cross-posting lots of stuff to eunet.micro.acorn)


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