On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 07:20:50 -0700, elizabeth wrote:
> > Hm. Wouldn't that make behavior of Lists and Arrays different?
>
> No, because Lists are supposed to be immutable wrt to the number of
> elements.
Yes, but that doesn't mean the user of the list necessarily knows or has to
know how many
> On 4 Jul 2017, at 16:19, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> That said, a List may not always be completely reified already. So
> logically, a List may have 100 elements, it could well be that only 42 of
> these elements exist already. Which means that the underlying NQP array,
> On 4 Jul 2017, at 16:05, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT
> wrote:
> On 2017-07-04 05:29:20, comdog wrote:
>> Accessing a List element beyond the end of the List returns Nil,
>> although accessing an element before the beginning returns an out of
>> bounds
> On 4 Jul 2017, at 16:05, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT
> wrote:
> On 2017-07-04 05:29:20, comdog wrote:
>> Accessing a List element beyond the end of the List returns Nil,
>> although accessing an element before the beginning returns an out of
>> bounds
Hm. Wouldn't that make behavior of Lists and Arrays different?
On 2017-07-04 05:29:20, comdog wrote:
> Accessing a List element beyond the end of the List returns Nil,
> although accessing an element before the beginning returns an out of
> bounds failure. I think there's two things that can be
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Accessing a List element beyond the end of the List returns Nil,
although accessing an