At 10:19 AM +0200 7/22/01, lcs@... wrote:
>Time to stand up and salute.  I've been yearning for
>FB containers for 15 years.  I'll be using them
>heavily. I bet my ad hoc "long string" FNs
>are outclassed by the new container FNs.

Consider that you can almost just replace all the $ by $$ in a 
program and go.  There are some locations were a direct exchange of 
string to container is not valid--once Release 5 is really released 
and I test it I can summarize my list of things not do.

I'm currently (when I have time) converting my CtoFB3 program over to 
containers, the biggest difficulty is where I pass strings into 
Functions, not wishing to get fancy with pointers (and I failed the 
first time on an easy one) I have however many globals I need for 
each function (a couple get reused).  The other difficulty is 
removing all the code that I made to work around the limitations of 
strings--for some reason they can only hold 255 characters :-).

Michael
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Michael Kluskens <mkluskens@...>