Proposal: Large arrays

[Marek Kozieł]

2009/3/24 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>
> ... which is generally why I favor letting collection-like types use the
> bracket notation to get and set elements.  That would eliminate the
> syntactically advantages of arrays.
>
> -Joe
>

In my opinion, supporting access throw indexes will cause that bad
style programming will increase.



2009/3/24 Mark Mahieu <markmahieu at googlemail.com>:
> 2009/3/24 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>
>>
>>
>> ... which is generally why I favor letting collection-like types use the
>> bracket notation to get and set elements.
>
>
> +1
>
>
>>  That would eliminate the
>> syntactically advantages of arrays.
>
>
> Except, possibly, for 'adding' elements to them, which in many cases just
> looks like:
>    fooArray[i++] = foo;
>
> Collections could conceivably go even cuter though:
>    fooList += foo;

This is not valid sytanx, because this suggest merging operation
rather than addin element.

   fooList[] += foo;
or
   fooList[] = foo;

> and
>
>    fooList -= foo;
> Mark
>
>


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