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From: David Schmidt <dnsocshpmaimd!t@bnr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2
Subject: Re: Applesoft Basic question...
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:02:48 -0500
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Jay wrote:
> 
> In article <33a7118f.944236@167.152.149.11>,
> LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com says...
> >
> >One more thing I forgot to add: arrays are all pre-dimensioned to
> >(10,10).  If you're only gonna DIMension an array to some small size,
> >don't bother.  It already is.
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>  Of course, you meant a(10) and not a(10,10). Otherwise you'd probably
> only have about 10k to program in.
> 
> Jay.

Actually, the first time you reference a subscripted array that hasn't
been DIMed,
it is created with subscripts 0-10 for each subscript you use:

?A(2)		creates A(10)
?A(2,2)		creates A(10,10)
?A(2,2,2)		creates A(10,10,10)
?A(2,2,2,2)	gets an out of memory error.

David S.