Re: Hooks for array notation (was Re: Ramblings on "base class" for SV etc.)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:26 PM 8/11/00 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>(I am *not* familiar with the current system behind arrays; reading the
>source to extract the idea doesn't sound smart. If somebody could point
>me to an explanation on how it works, I would be much obliged.)

Currently arrays have an array of pointers to the individual array 
elements. (It'd usually a power-of-two in size to allow for growth without 
an insane number of reallocs)

                                        Dan

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