Re: sorted sparse containers (was Re: PDL-P: Re: Hooks for array notation (was Re: Ramblings on "baseclass" for SV etc.)

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
>  
> > Strong typing and sparse arrays are orthogonal--no reason we shouldn't use
> > them if someone does:
> > 
> >    $foo[time]
> > 
> > or something of the sort. (People like huge arrays with few scalars in
> > them too... :)
> > 
> >                                         Dan
> 
> And for the inexperinced, arrays that are more than half undef would
> transparently spring into existence as sparse

Sounds more and more like we're creating a pseudo-array.  (The natural
complement to a pseudo-hash.  :-)



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