Hi, On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:00:44 AM UTC+1, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > On Monday, December 16, 2013 6:08:40 PM UTC-5, David van Leeuwen wrote: >> >> I've been wondering if it is possible to write a pass-by-reference >> function that alters the size of an array. >> > > To answer your original question, yes it is possible. See, for example, > the push! function in the standard library. However, as Stefan pointed > out, this is not what your code is doing. > Thanks, I mentioned that in the original post. push! relies on a Ccall that does the magic.
The "solution" I use right now is to embed the array in something else (another array or a type), so that a change of binding inside appears like the change of the object itself, but obviously there is a complete creation of a new array and the release of the old one. Something like ---david
