On 25 Jan 2004, at 00:50, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
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Is there something so terribly wrong with English? How about a general scheme of <adjective>* <noun>? So, respectively,
MixedArray Array FixedArray StringArray FixedStringArray
Array is what Perl familiars will usually want.
Did I miss something? What is Array here?
General scheme: Need something more specific? Type more. Not sure on Fixed, but I like it more than FLen. Other option is to flip it around and tag Resizable, but that violates my previous pricipal of "most useful = most convenient." I don't think MixedArray will see much use, so FixedMixedArray doesn't worry me too much. :)
I would definitely avoid the words mutable/immutable, as that will certainly be read by many (me :) to pertain to the values contained within the array.
Yes, I'm already anti-me on that. It should have been Resizable. And though that's more precise than Fixed, I agree with your principle.
So, to go back to Dan's original list, does that give us:
(FixedMixedArray - fixed-size, mixed-type array) MixedArray - variable-sized, mixed-type array
FixedPMCArray - fixed-size, PMC array PMCArray - variable-sized, PMC array
FixedStringArray - fixed-size, string array StringArray - variable-sized, string array
FixedNumberArray - fixed-size, number array StringArray - variable-sized, number array
FixedIntegerArray - fixed-size, integer array IntegerArray - variable-sized, integer array
with
fixedarray - abstract fixed-size array array - abstract variable-sized array
for the common functionality.
Mike
