[Slackers] Slang v1.4 released

[Magnus Lind]

Steve Judd wrote:
> Just a short note that slangv1.4 (which is b1.22) is available on the web

Great release, I've been trying it out for a few hours today and all 
array pointer stuff I need/want to do work as expected :).

A question: The following code generates some warnings about "Fewer dims 
than expected". Are all instances of this warning correct? I seem to be 
unable to avoid it whenever I try to assign the location of an array to 
an array pointer.
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     ubyte str(10)
     ubyte ^strp(10)

     strp = #"test1"
     strp = #str
     strp = str

     test(#"test2")
     test(str)
     test(#str)
     test(strp)

     sub test(ubyte ^outdata(0))
     endsub
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Also, I seem to have found a bug. However its no big deal since its easy 
to work around. Here's a short example that provokes a "hey cool, a 
phase error" message from the compiler:
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     ubyte i, j
     ubyte str(10)

     if 0<1
	str(i) = str(j)
     endif
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while this example doesn't:
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     ubyte i, j
     ubyte str(10)

     if 0<1
	j = str(j)
	str(i) = j
     endif
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Finally, how about that big endian stored int type (16 bit signed, for 
BASIC interoperability)? Would it be much work? Is it something that I 
can do myself by modifying slangdef/userdef or is the type stuff 
embedded deeper in the language core?

/Regards

Magnus Lind