I can no longer see a reason to require that it is a power of two.

doc/SixtyPical.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ There are five *primitive types* in SixtyPical:
 
 There are also three *type constructors*:
 
-*   T table[N] (N is a power of 2, 1 ≤ N ≤ 256; each entry holds a value
+*   T table[N] (N entries, 1 ≤ N ≤ 256; each entry holds a value
                 of type T, where T is `byte`, `word`, or `vector`)
 *   buffer[N] (N entries; each entry is a byte; 1 ≤ N ≤ 65536)
 *   vector T (address of a value of type T; T must be a routine type)

src/sixtypical/parser.py

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class Parser(object):
 
         if self.scanner.consume('table'):
             size = self.defn_size()
-            if size not in (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 129, 256):
+            if size <= 0 or size > 256:
                 raise SyntaxError("Table size must be a power of two, 0 < size <= 256")
             type_ = TableType(type_, size)
 

tests/SixtyPical Syntax.md

@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ Tables of different types.
     | }
     = ok
 
-The number of entries in a table must be a power of two
-which is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 256.
+The number of entries in a table must be
+greater than 0 and less than or equal to 256.
 
     | word table[512] many
     | 
@@ -168,18 +168,6 @@ which is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 256.
     | }
     ? SyntaxError
 
-    | word table[48] many
-    | 
-    | routine main
-    |   inputs many
-    |   outputs many
-    |   trashes a, x, n, z
-    | {
-    |     ld x, 0
-    |     copy 9999, many + x
-    | }
-    ? SyntaxError
-
     | word table[0] many
     | 
     | routine main
@@ -192,6 +180,18 @@ which is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 256.
     | }
     ? SyntaxError
 
+    | word table[48] many
+    | 
+    | routine main
+    |   inputs many
+    |   outputs many
+    |   trashes a, x, n, z
+    | {
+    |     ld x, 0
+    |     copy 9999, many + x
+    | }
+    = ok
+
 Typedefs of different types.
 
     | typedef byte octet