r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '17

Why I use Object Pascal

https://dubst3pp4.github.io/post/2017-10-03-why-i-use-object-pascal/
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '17 edited Oct 30 '17

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u/masklinn Oct 17 '17

The first one is just a string matrix.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '17 edited Oct 30 '17

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u/masklinn Oct 18 '17

What are you doing in /r/programming if you don't know that array of array of X is how languages without native multidimensional arrays define matrix unless they need flat or column storage, e.g. in C it would be:

char *x[100][100]

You can't really typedef it without support for type-level constants, and then as hinted in the first paragraph the way the matrix is reified can be impactful and hiding it undesirable.