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Subject: Re: EGTB question to Martin Fierz

Author: martin fierz

Date: 14:21:45 05/01/02

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On May 01, 2002 at 16:40:26, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Hello Martin,
>how are you?
>
>I'm trying to get the positiontoindex(p) and indextoposition() functions right.
>So far indextoposition() looks allright by the board output it shows.
>However positiontoindex(p) doesn't seem to be working correctly because for
>diferent positions it gives a few same indices.
>I should point out that I'm using PowerBasic Console Compiler 2.11
>
>So I would like to ask you a question:
>Will there allways be a one to one relationship between the indexing and
>deindexing functions? In other words, let
>   index1=positiontoindex(p1)
>   p2 is computed by indextoposition(index1, p2, ...)
>   index2=positiontoindex(p2)
>   Will index1=index2 and p1=p2 allways be true?

yes, that should be the case - else your program is broken.

aloha
  martin

>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso



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