token engine?

[Agamemnus]

Hmm... ok. I changed my mind.

Yeah, that would work, if you applied all the SUB syntax to an embedded SUB. The code would just change from:

DIM a AS blah
CALL subBlah(a)

to:

DIM a AS blah

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Except there's one problem. My syntax wouldn't work, so you wouldn't be able to have variable-length type arrays. It can be remedied by just making the TYPE into SUB with a rule that says "DIM" or "DIM SHARED" isn't necessary (since we don't know whether it is global or local or static)

Code:

TYPE myType(x AS INTEGER, y AS INTEGER, valueAmount AS INTEGER, segmentAmount AS INTEGER, recordAmount AS INTEGER, typeValue AS LITERAL)
value(0 TO valueAmount - 1) AS typeValue
segStart(0 TO segmentAmount - 1) AS INTEGER
segEnd(0 TO segmentAmount - 1) AS INTEGER
recStart(0 TO recordAmount - 1) AS INTEGER
recEnd(0 TO recordAmount - 1) AS INTEGER
x AS INTEGER
y AS INTEGER
END TYPE

Thus the way it would work is it would just replace the DIM with the code of the TYPE and add the appropriate DIM/DIM SHARED stuff as well as the values/LITERALs....

Hmm..