[Gambas-user] Array decalarion

[Ron]

Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>     
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Why is method 1 of defining an array not allowed?
>>>> Method 2 is the only one working, but looks clumsy when you have a lot
>>>> of bytes.
>>>>
>>>> 1)
>>>> DIM b AS Byte[] = [&HF0,  &H30,  &HF0, &H30]
>>>>
>>>> The error is "Type mismatch: wanted Byte[], got Integer[] instead"
>>>>         
>>> &HF0 is not a Byte, it is an Integer. You must do:
>>>
>>> DIM b AS Byte[] = [CByte(&HF0),  &H30,  &HF0, &H30]
>>>
>>> The type of the array created by the [ ... ] function is the type of the
>>> first element.
>>>       
>> That syntax gives the following....
>> Type mismatch: wanted Byte[], got Variant[]
>>
>> Only this seems to work...
>> DIM b AS Byte[] = [CByte(&HF0), CByte(&H30), CByte(&HF0), CByte(&H30)]
>>
>> But that even more code, than method 2.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Sorry, the type of the array is given by the two first elements. If they are 
> different, a Variant[] is returned.
>
>   
Yep that works.
Thanks.
Ron.