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"Okay. I do the determination in the outer block (see my
example). And either way, the dimensions are known in the
outer block. ..."
There is none so blind as he that refuses to see. Outer block.
Inner block. Downgrade engineering, upgrade programming.
Yes, you have to be conscious of inner and outer blocks. You
not only have to be conscious but you have to conscientiously
in writing designate them as such. You have to
conscientiously know when a variable gets allocated and
when it gets freed, because you have to put it in writing.
That's programming. You prefer it one way;I, another. That's
style, but it's still programming.
Of course, my example doesn't work. I said it wouldn't. It
marks the fallacy of saying you use begin-end as Greg did to
mark separate calculation code segments. You can't do it
here and get the type of dynamic allocation that you want.
So why not forget the inner and outer blocks, global and local
variables, about marking code altogether? Why not have one
block with its local variables and simply use allocate and free
where you know you would have to use begin and end? You
don't have to know any more or any less.
You know you can't have a matrix before you know its
dimensions. Thus you know the earliest point in which you
can allocate it. You know when your processing of it is
complete. That tells you when you can free it. If you have to
have two matrices or three or four or more up concurrently
the process remains the same.
Moreover, if you allocate your matrices as list entries,...nah, I
won't pursue that here except that Pascal doesn't support
aggregate operands.
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