Passing fixed length string array to function

[OldMoses]

I'm guessing that what you're trying to do with STRING * 8 is just make certain to properly align the data? 

It was for the _MEM sub mainly, which was simply

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SUB MemSmush (m AS _MEM, x%) '                                  move array elements above x% down over x%. Fill uppermost with null
    _MEMCOPY m, m.OFFSET + (m.ELEMENTSIZE * (x% + 1)), m.SIZE - (m.ELEMENTSIZE * (x% + 1)) TO m, m.OFFSET + (m.ELEMENTSIZE * x%)
    _MEMFILL m, m.OFFSET + m.ELEMENTSIZE * ((m.SIZE / m.ELEMENTSIZE) - 1), m.ELEMENTSIZE, 0 AS _BYTE
END SUB

Kind of like yankin' a box out from under a stack of boxes. Just that the boxes have to be the same size for the mem commands to work. The whole point of that being to avoid unnecessary iterations to remove and pancake a series of array elements. I tried your "foo" example from earlier as a function and it behaved the same way. It's obvious that the IDE sees AS STRING and AS STRING * 8 as two different types and I just can't do that.