[Gambas-user] Explictly sized array parameters in method signatures?

[T Lee Davidson]

This may be over-simplified, but couldn't you define a DateRange structure? Or 
would that not provide the constraints you need?


Lee
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On 01/27/2015 08:02 PM, adamnt42 at ...626... wrote:
> Hmm, I've never tried this before.
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> Suppose a function GetCurrent(DateRange as Date[]),  now intuitively DateRange is an array of 2 dates. No-one would be silly enough to pass an array with more than two elements would they?  My cynical nature says yes they could/would.
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> I could ignore the array length and just use DateRange[0] and DateRange[1] as the limits but that may produce confusing outcomes, or an error if DateRange contains only one element.
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> I would like to define the function as GetCurrent(DateRange as Date[2]) but this is apparently a syntax error.
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> Obviously, in this trivialised example, I could check the bounds of the passed array in the function body, I just expected that the runtime would  check an explicitly sized array parameter. The real function is (of course) much more complex. The function requires an array of Dates[3][2] and another 5 parameters, some of which are optional.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Bruce
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