Array initialization bug (*solved*)

[einar]

My next ZX BASIC game requires a lookup table for variable sized data.

The simplest solution would be something like this:

Code:

data1:
    asm
        defb 0,1,2,3,4,5
    end asm
data2:
    asm
        defb 6,7,8
    end asm
data3:
    asm
        defb 9,10,11,12
    end asm

DIM array(1 TO 3) AS UINTEGER = { @data1, @data2, @data3 }

But compiling this program using latest version of ZX BASIC (incorrectly) produces the following error messages:

Code:

prog.bas:14: Initializer expression is not constant.
prog.bas:14: Initializer expression is not constant.
prog.bas:14: Initializer expression is not constant.

Another alternative would be declaring the lookup table directly in ASM, but ZX BASIC doesn't support mapping arrays to memory addresses either:

Code:

DIM array(1 TO 3) AS UINTEGER AT @data

For now, I'm implementing everything "manually" instead of using ZX BASIC arrays. But it would be nice if this problem could be fixed in future releases!