Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something?

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Date	2018-08-31 09:47 -0700
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Subject	Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something?
From	rugxulo@gmail.com

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Hi,

On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 9:56:01 AM UTC-5, Robert Prins wrote:
> 
> One feature sadly missing from Pascal is the fact that PL/I allows you to use 
> '*' as array extents in a called proc, and the (hidden) descriptors that are 
> also passed to it allow you to call the same proc with
> ...

I don't quite understand what you mean here.

> and a set of builtin functions (lbound and hbound) can be used to retrieve
> the low and high bounds of the arrays. ;) It's a bit more convoluted to do
> this with Pascal...

Are you talking about conformant arrays? Schemata? Open arrays?
Even Turbo Pascal (only later versions?) had LOW() and HIGH() built-ins.
Is that what you meant?

* https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu14.html

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Speeding up code - am I missing something? Robert Prins <robert@nospicedham.prino.org> - 2018-08-15 21:37 +0000
  Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Peter Flass <peter_flass@nospicedham.yahoo.com> - 2018-08-15 17:52 -0400
    Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Robert Prins <robert@nospicedham.prino.org> - 2018-08-16 19:51 +0000
  Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Robert Prins <robert@nospicedham.prino.org> - 2018-08-16 20:38 +0000
    Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Robert Prins <robert@nospicedham.prino.org> - 2018-08-17 19:20 +0000
      Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Robert Prins <robert@nospicedham.prino.org> - 2018-08-23 17:21 +0000
        Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Peter Flass <peter_flass@nospicedham.yahoo.com> - 2018-08-23 11:47 -0400
        Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? rugxulo@gmail.com - 2018-08-31 09:47 -0700
          Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Robert Prins <robert@prino.org> - 2018-09-01 10:08 +0000
            Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2018-09-01 11:20 +0000
            Re: Speeding up code - am I missing something? rugxulo@gmail.com - 2018-09-03 17:32 -0700

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