Re: Of constants and variables

"Xcriber51 >" <Ken <ken-tusc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:7852032ad4cbb226b31b83d33f32d7c7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Chris, thanks for your suggestion, but the discussion wasn't "what is
the
> most efficient way to implement the soundex algorithm." It was "why
can't
> we access constant strings the way we can variable ones." I picked that
> example off the top of my head, so that's irrelevant.
>

Fair enough - but not totally irrelevant. I am interested to learn of 
alternative tasks that could *best* be implemented by accessing constant 
strings as if they were an array rather than using any of the alternative 
approaches that are possible in Oberon. If such tasks exist then that
would 
sup****t the introduction of such a feature into future descendants of
Oberon 
/ Component Pascal / Zonnon etc.

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp