Can a HNA be used anywhere you'd use a regular array?

This question is probably past it's use-by date by now, but: keep in mind that an HNA is just an alternative way of *encoding* an array in the PostScript stream. The PostScript scanner converts an HNA to a regular PostScript array internally; there's no savings in VM usage. (Just in case you were thinking this would be a more efficient way o storing an array.)

If you're looking to reduce VM use, you might be able to store your arrays as packedarrays; these take up about 70% as much VM as a regular array (and you can still express them in the PostScript stream as HNAs).

- John

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The PLRM states that HNAs are indistinguishable from literal arrays after the interpreter's scanner digested them. So I think the answer is yes. But you should try it out

with a small test proram.