<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="">EDIT: "boils down" to instead of “boils"<div class="">ADDITION: There probably is no one “right” answer that suits everyone’s needs (or tastes..), otherwise it would surely have been found in the past 50+ years.. it hasn’t.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 08 Oct 2017, at 07:12, Andreas Pirklbauer <<a href="mailto:andreas_pirklbauer@yahoo.com" class="">andreas_pirklbauer@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div 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=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>