Re: Is this the simplest way to define corresponding arrays in D-specs

On 08 Aug 2013 15:11, Alan Campin wrote:

<<SNIP>> What you want is to have something like this encapsulated
inside a procedure or maybe better yet in a procedure in a service
program. The caller should just ask what the value related with this
value. How the procedure does it should be hidden. <<SNIP>>

I was thinking along those lines, but even if for some reason the /caller/ might want the actual array(s) vs just get an answer to some correlation. The effective initialization could be moved to a C-Spec as a prototyped function\procedure invocation. If either the literal values must be changed or a change is made from elements being set to the literal values to being obtained\set from elsewhere [e.g. perhaps to enable multi-lingual; obtained from a message file or ??], the procedure may be the only thing needing an actual source change and recompile; i.e. the caller can remain unchanged unless the interface changes.