Hi Paul, Your latest releases have played heck with my editor themes - I can go back to versions like 1.60 and the themes are fine - but with the 1.9+ versions, the colors are all messed up. Any idea what changes you made to the theme format and how I might figure out what's going on without spendin...

. BasicCoder2, I'm pretty sure it is an attempt at a sparse neural network. dafhi implemented the PCG PRNG function in FB language simply to have control over the type of random numbers that he wanted to utilize in his routines. (He also implemented Xiaolin Wu's line algorithm, etc.). It appears tha...

Ah! So even though example 4 runs without the -exx compiler option... it is just some side effect. With -exx it compiles ok, but it breaks when it runs.

So in the first 3 examples, although I have DIM'ed a dynamic array, DIM()... the compiler sees both REDIM()s (in order) in the same context as the DIM()... and since the second REDIM() is trying to change the arrays dimensions from what the first REDIM() set as a single dimension... we get a compile...

. Wondering why multiple conditional REDIM()s are treated differently when they are in a different code block than their corresponding DIM()... I get a compile error when there are multiple REDIM()s in an IF...ELSE block - and those REDIM()s are in the same code block as their DIM().... whether the ...

. Ok... so Type structures are not implicitly passed by reference in FB. EDIT: Nope! wait a minute... I think MrSwiss says BYVAL, but fxm says BYREF ??? And in my OP... somesub() can change the type instance and the caller sees the changes... and in somesub2(), the caller does not see any changes ma...

. I see cases where people have passed TYPEs as function parameters in one of two different ways. I am wondering why? TYPE type__t DIM x as INTEGER END TYPE DIM mytype as type__t SUB somesub( BYVAL zzz as type__t PTR) ' PTR dereference zzz->x = 42 END SUB SUB somesub2( zzz as type__t) ' DOT derefere...

sancho3, good catch on the nested parentheses. What made you think to try that? Is it documented somewhere to use it for this purpose?

EDIT: FYI - I edited the summary above to add the nested parens and USING information.

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Also, sancho3, I wonder if the chr(0) issue has to do with the fact that:

CONST
Specifying String as DataType is tolerated but without effect because the resulting type is always a Zstring * Size.

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EDIT: Oops! - you basically already said that.
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. That's timely, sancho3... I was just typing a response to fxm about the CONST point when you posted... Cool, fxm... I was able to do it with a CONST... const _WORD_BREAK_CHARS_ as String = _TAB_ + _LF_ + _CR_ + _SPC_ + "!" + _DQ_ + "#$%&" + _SQ_ + "()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_...

. Here's a summary for anyone that sees this thread... EDIT: added #4. EDIT: added nested parens to #3 thanks to sancho3 - (because I didn't catch it when fxm said it [smile]). EDIT: added existing bug report reference to #3 thanks to fxm ' NAMESPACE related STRING variable issues: ' ' 1. Variable i...

Thanks, MrSwiss. I only asked that question since I couldn't get the program to compile when I was trying to access the variable outside the namespace. But as fxm pointed out, it was just a problem with the LEN() function against the variable from the namespace. I had poured over the manual (look at...

Also under NAMESPACE, the fact that it *requires* you to use the namespace identifier to access the namespace's variables.

EDIT: Plus the fact that... No strings in a namespace can be initialized with a NULL in the literal.

Aargh!... Thanks! You are correct. When I was first having problems defining the variables, I was using the namespace id when trying to print the variable itself. But I eventually just got down to using the PRINT LEN() that I showed in the test rig. So it's just the LEN() and associated functions. E...

Thanks fxm, but it wasn't just len(). When I tried to print the variable itself, or assign it to another variable, etc. The compiler gave that: error 42: Variable not declared, _WORD_BREAK_CHARS_ in ... (whatever I was trying to use it for) ... It could not see the variable defined in the namespace ...