On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > The data is mutable, the length is not -- this is more in line with arrays in > other languages, but more importantly the whole point of the typed array spec > was to provide a compact typed storage mechanism. Allowing the length to be > changed runs counter to this as it effectively puts us back in the position > of supporting sparse arrays.
I don't see why that's the case. You can define the semantics such that length-extension zero-fills (or NaN-fills, if you like to hurt kittens) rather than permitting sparseness, and it would seem to meet all the requirements of the typedarray spec. Mike _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
