Two-dimensional array

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For the wiki I think it should be shorter, more to the point.
And of course in english 

This is something coming out of an European whose first language isn't English...

I shake your hand and that of anybody else with those qualifications. Otherwise, QB64PE and many other apps would start looking like Libreoffice LOL. It seems everyday somebody volunteers to translate something in a certain language. I would too but don't want to be a package maintainer and I'm not going to have Internet for much longer...

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ON TOPIC: coming to my mind readily as an example for double-dimensional arrays would be a text screen. Provide a way to print to the array before it is dumped to the screen, not having to turn to the fancy functions we have now to do that sort of thing.

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DIM myscreen(1 TO 25, 1 TO 80) AS STRING * 1

It opens some possibilities for how to interpret the information in the array to show the screen. Such as the twice-as-large wacky mode of TRS-80 Model III which required pressing [CLEAR] or entering "CLS" to cancel back to 64-character line. The 32x16 was standard on the Color Computer though.

Instead of one-byte string, could use "_BYTE" type for a way to interpret the high-bit characters, especially to print into a graphics screen and draw them instead of an unreliable Unicode font.