Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

[Ken Ray]

> Having a variable length string type is another fine point.  Does it
> make sense to have a variable length string type at all, since
> Transcript is already very robust in the string area.  Perhaps it is
> sufficient to have only a fixed number of chars that are padded out
> with a "blank" char.  I could go either way, but having a char count
> for a string type would be more general and it would increase the
> number of uses.  Perhaps the length is a max of 127 or 255 characters
> --only short strings would benefit from a fixed length array.

Good questions - I think Mark Waddingham's going to have to weigh in here to
let us know exactly how Rev stores/manages arrays for us to go too much
farther other than to declare dimensioning syntax.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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