[Slackers] Sort-of Slang 1.2 is on the page

[Steve Judd]

Hey Jaymz,

Yep, there are two things at work here.  First, with array pointers the
leading ^ is not used -- only with normal type pointers.  I noted this in
the new slangref_tiny but alas not in the thingie I sent out.  Oops.

The second is that the message is actually a warning message, not an error
message.  In Slang you are allowed to use fewer array dimensions than
declared.

After uploading yesterday I fixed it so that array pointers don't generate
that message anymore.  Neither do strings.  Too annoying.  The other
thing I fixed is that if you declare a pointer as an @-var in zero page,

	ubyte ^screen@$fe

then the compiler will use that zp var for the pointer.  In the version
you have, the compiler will stupidly copy from $fe to a new zp location.
This isn't for arrays though, since the zp location for arrays is usually
modified during lookup.

Glad to hear that it works so far though!

cu,

-S

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Jaymz Julian wrote:

> Interesting addendum: the following code -
>
> ubyte ^screen($400)
> uint j
> screen=$0400
> for j=0:1024
>         screen(j)=1
> next
> waitchar
>
> actually DOES compile a working binary which does what it should - but
> at the compile stage, it gives an error:
>
> Danger Will Robinson! Line 3: Fewer dims than expected
>
> ... but works anyhow!  odd... but the superflous error is terribly
> confusing :)
>
> 	-- jj
>
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