On 11/5/2010 17:41, Walter Bright wrote: > In other words, I create an array that I mean to fill in later, because > I don't have meaningful data for it in advance.
That's a faulty idiom. A data structure that exists but contains no valid data is a bug waiting to happen - no, it /is/ a bug, even if it does not yet manifest as incorrect observable behavior. (Or at best, it's an unsafe optimization technique that should be wrapped up in an encapsulating function.) -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
