RE: Feedback on Binary Data updates

2011-07-21 Thread Luke Hoban
>The idea is definitely to subsume typed arrays as completely as possible. Great. > The idea is that all Types have a known size, and all Data instances are > allocated contiguously. > For example, if you could put unsized array types inside of struct types, it > wouldn't be clear how to all

Re: Feedback on Binary Data updates

2011-07-20 Thread David Herman
Hi Luke, The idea is definitely to subsume typed arrays as completely as possible. > * Array types of fixed length > The current design fixes the length of an ArrayType instance as part of the > ArrayType definition, instead of as a parameter to the resulting constructor. > I'm not sure I unde

Feedback on Binary Data updates

2011-07-20 Thread Luke Hoban
I saw that there have been some updates to the Binary Data proposal on the wiki. This is great, I think Binary Data is one of the really important enabling capabilities being added to ES.next, so I'm excited to see progress here. Below is some feedback on the current draft proposal. The overa