Hi, Andrew,
A J Martin wrote:
> Anton wrote:
>
>>Watch out though, each item in chickenfarm is the same chicken object:
>
> Yes! You've found a bug in 'array!
>
It's not a bug, since AFAIK there's no published specification
that says ARRAY should behave any differently than it does.
We've seen this issue before, in connection with other reference
types, as in
>> foo: "Hi!"
== "Hi!"
>> gorp: array/initial 10 foo
== ["Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!" "Hi!"]
>> foo/2: #"a"
== "Ha!"
>> gorp
== ["Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!"]
Given the available documentation for ARRAY:
>> ? array
USAGE:
ARRAY size /initial value
DESCRIPTION:
Makes and initializes a series of a given size.
ARRAY is a function value.
ARGUMENTS:
size -- Size or block of sizes for each dimension
(Type: integer block)
REFINEMENTS:
/initial -- Specify an initial value for all elements
value -- Initial value (Type: any)
it is consistent that the (single!) initial value is uses for all
elements.
-jn-
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