Arrays

[Duke Normandin]

Pike v8.0 release 702 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)

> array(string) flat = ({"this", "that", "the", "other"});
> flat[1];(4) Result: "that"

> flat[1]=3;
(5) Result: 3

> flat[1];
(6) Result: 3

I was under the impression that array(string) would exclude any
other data types but strings.

What's going on?
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Duke

[Chris Angelico]

It doesn't work in Hilfe, but "#pragma strict_types" will flag a
script as wanting more stringent type checking, and will flag
assignments like that.

ChrisA

[Duke Normandin]

Do you mean that the #pragma can be used in Hilfe as well as
scripts? Or just in scripts?
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Duke

[Chris Angelico]

Pragmas don't directly work in Hilfe, but you can use this directive
to enable strict_types:

> set warnings strict

Unfortunately, the version of Pike I'm using (a trunk build of 8.1.14)
has a lot of spurious warnings from strict_types, so I tend not to use
it. But if it works for you, then go for it.

ChrisA

[Duke Normandin]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:07:43 +1100

I found out for myself that pragmas don't work in Hilfe - but
thanks for confirming it and for the alternate option. I'll give it
a try.

I work with emacs most of the time, so I'm trying to figure out a
slick workflow to learn with. Doing the learning code in Hilfe is
great, but if it's limited than it might cause more confusion which
I don't need.

Thanks agian ..
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Duke

[Duke Normandin]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:07:43 +1100
Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> > set warnings strict

That worked swell in my Hilfe! Thx
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Duke