From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-01-21T22:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Hello! Array sub classing?

Hello --

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Markt wrote:

> Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I must be missing something.  Does Array have unmodifiable
> > element delimiters?  Does Array have element delimiters at all?
>
> They have to be there... somewhere... implied as part of a deeper method
> or invisible, private to the class.
>
> Since the data is stored, there has to be a delimiter.
>
> Hmm.. OK... maybe not... could be just a bunch of pointers....
>
> Then again, when a string contains commas, it can be treated as a set of
> elements...

But it's still a string :-)  (not an array with commas between its
elements).  You can decide you want to split on the commas, and generate
an array of the resulting substrings, but the original string doesn't
"know" that that's what you're planning to use the commas for.


David

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