Re: "internal" variables?

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:13:07PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > I wondered if allowing a special class of (struct variable) which does
>      > not have any associated dictionary would be a sensible idea?  
>      
>      Already exists.  Just call var_create().
>      
>      > These kind of variables would be very sparse, containing only a
>      > width, and a case_idx.
>      
>      The case_idx isn't really there conceptually, because currently
>      it's thought of as part of the dictionary and just stored in the
>      variable for convenience.  But you can put it there with
>      var_set_vardict(); despite the stern warning in vardict.h that
>      "This header file should only be included by variable.c and
>      dictionary.c," there is nothing actually enforcing it (if I
>      recall correctly).
>
> You're right.  Perhaps then we can put a convenience function in
> data/variables.h to wrap the most common usage?

OK.  Do you want to propose it?  You are more familiar with your
proposed use case than I am.
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Ben Pfaff 
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