Rick McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

> These are fundamentally different constructs.  Do Over actually requests a
> new version from the collection which is defined as being non-sparse.  The
> sort is an in-place modification of the array itself.

REXX used to have a principle of least astonishment.  You're saying that to
be un-astonished a user has to know the inner workings of the implementation
which seems, well, astonishing.


[snip]


> Raising an error if a~items < a~size would mean the above scenario would
> only work if there were exactly 1000 items added to the array.  The
> dichotomy between items and size and the meaning of sparse is intentional.
> This change is not going to be made.

Is it possible then that a decent explanation that ordinary users can
understand can be put into the relevant doc?



-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

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