Why element size is not 2?

[Petr]

Maybe it will be related to some medieval definition from qbasic.... (I'm assuming that you can't do for example DIM L as INTEGER and then DIM L as LONG, an error will occur - the variable is already used, so this will probably be the same case, but there is a lack of error catching in the IDE. (that's a guess). I will this ancient limitation bypass via MEM.