[Nickle] Re: Another nickle question

[Jeremy Greenwald]

	Yeah I needed to initialize fir with "={}" after that everything
worked the way I expected it to.  Thanks.

Gentlemen . . . Behold!

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Barton C Massey wrote:

> Couple of possible gotchas.  First, make sure you're using
> sufficiently recent Nickle bits: we fixed some bugs a month
> or so back.  Second, note that as they are currently
> implemented, growable arrays aren't allocated until they're
> initialized.  This is a bug, and should be fixed.  Finally,
> note that until you've initialized a cell in the array, you
> can't initialize its contents.
>
> Here's some Nickle that works
>   $ nickle
>   > typedef struct { int x; } s;
>   > s[...] a = {};
>   > a[0] = (s){x=3};
>   > setdim(a,2)
>   > a
>   (s [...]) {{x = 3}, <uninit>}
>   > setdim(a,0)
>   >
>
> 	Bart
>
> In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411131444580.19710 at atlas.cs.pdx.edu> you wrote:
> > 	I am trying to use the '...' to declare resizeable arrays, but I
> > keep getting this exception:
> > Unhandled exception uninitialized_value ("Uninitialized value")
> > when ever I try to assign into the array I declared.
> > 	Also I can't seem to find any documentation on setdim and setdims.
> > When I try to use setdim with my resizable array, I also get the same
> > exception.
> > 	I declare the array with "location[...] bases" and call setdim
> > with "setdim(bases,10)".
>