Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!geocub!olch
From: olch@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Olivier Charrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Problem with Draco's arrays
Message-ID: <1693@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Date: 12 Mar 90 09:19:42 GMT
Reply-To: gnu@cerisi.cerisi.fr (Cedric BEUST)
Organization: Greco-Programmation, Bordeaux, France.
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  I found a little problem when trying to use arrays of unknown sizes as
arguments in Draco's functions. I typed the example given in the doc,
which looks like that:

proc minimum([*] int t) int:
int min,i;

  min := t[0];
  for i from 1 to dim(t,1) do
    if t[i] < min then min := t[i] fi
  od;
  min
corp;

  The compiler returns the error 'cannot use sizeof on array with '*'' (or
something like that), and indicates

    if t[i] < min then min := t[i] fi
         ^
  If I replace i with a constant or a numeric, it works. Why does this
happen?

Cedric.