<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> On Sun Oct 8 02:26:53 CEST 2017 Chris Burrows wrote:</span></font><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> If the programmer has chosen to use anonymous arrays it might well be reasonable to assume</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> he is not concerned about name equivalence so why should he be inconvenienced but prohibiting</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> assignments? Surely not just because it conflicts with somebody else's personal taste?</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">It all boils to the question of whether we view the text “ARRAY 10 OF INTEGER” in an anonymous array declaration as</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> a) a name in its own right</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> b) a name with a parameter 10</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> c) not a name (anonymous entity)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">Different programmers will have different points of views on this.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">-AP</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><br class=""></body></html>