No personal preference, just want to consider options, and wondering if the
design is working (or needs a workaround).
I kind of thought we had a way to represent lists of content, indicate the
type of the list element, and then allow multiplicity to be zero to any,
nillable false.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:08 AM Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> We do have some typed lists lurking around as dependencies ...
>>
>
> Yes but I'd need one for every possible type, and the client code would
> have to know about them.
>
>
>> But .. why not store the element type on the attribute descriptor? You
>> could use a user data hint if you have to ...
>>
>
> That is an option, but it would mean client code would have to know about
> it and look for it, while arrays are explicit and do not require
> any new convention.
>
> So lists have a nicer toString() working by default and do not require any
> extra work on that side, while arrays are explicit about the type
> and do not require any extra work on that particular side.
>
> Any significant reason (outside of personal preference) to go one way or
> the other?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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