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6 May 2024 06:07:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: zero length arrays  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 6 Feb 2016 02:46:14
Message: <56b5a4c6$1@news.povray.org>
On 6-2-2016 1:01, Mike Horvath wrote:
> On 2/5/2016 4:16 AM, dick balaska wrote:
>> On 2/4/2016 8:56 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
>>> I'm trying to write a script that gets its objects from arrays. However,
>>> some of these arrays are empty, and cause parsing to stop. Why are zero
>>> length arrays not allowed? This is not true of most of the programming
>>> languages I am familiar with, and means I have to write a lot of extra
>>> code to handle this situation.
>>>
>>
>> If I have an array that may be of size 0, then I just don't define it
>> and later check for #ifdef when I want to use it.
>>
>
> This means I will have to rewrite Chris Colefax's CityGen, since he uses
> arrays to store lots of stuff. :(

Then why does CityGen work in its original state? Or so I remember from 
the past...

-- 
Thomas


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