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From: UK4H@DKAUNI2.BITNET ("JAE ", Juergen A. Erhard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re2: Clever way to deal with this?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 13:59:45 GMT
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Hi folks,

many, many comments on marks original msg I've read. And now, I'd like
to (re)add my 2 cents worth to it.

All (Mark@ecncdc, stephen, robert, dave) came up with some dynamic
allocation scheme. Me too.
Only Tim thought of something else, but that's after the second msg
from Mark.

My thoughts now:
  Best thing to do in M2 would be:
    record
      num:CARDINAL;
      chars:ARRAY (.0..<some limit>.) OF CHAR;
    end;

On Tim's msg:
  Stupid thing, this one:
>          charPtr := SYSTEM.ADR(buffer.text[i]);
>          InOut.Write(charPtr:)
Why not do:
  InOut.Write(buffer.text i );

See the point, Tim?
> Hope this adds something to the discussion.
Sure...

Mark, what do you mean with
> The actual characters are fixed in length, but <...>
????
Do you determine the storage size at run time, too???

Well, I'm writing an editor myself, and it uses some representation
similar to the dynamic ones the others layed out. If only I could upload
it onto this IBM here...

Maybe this msg wasn't as clear as I'd like it to be, but sometimes (like
today) I'm a bit confused (and confusing)...

                                          -jae

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