[fpc-pascal] Array clearing

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Apr 1, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> I am wondering what the purpose of filling all
> array elements with zero's could be.
> If I want to discard all elements I would simply delete
> the whole array (setlength(MyArray,0) ).

Because the array is being iterated and I need to know which values are set. Basically I have a dynamic array I grow to a certain size and this process happens in a loop. The options are to allocate/free the array every cycle or clear memory and allocate the array once.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph