J. David Blackstone wrote:
>
> > And in related news, it's a total pain that one can't iterate over the
> > contents of an array without knowing intimate details about its
> > contents: you have to know whether it's byte[], or int[], or Object[].
>
> That's one nice thing about Perl; you can foreach over
> an array of all sorts of different things. In fact, being able to
> just have an array of all sorts of different things is something Perl
> still has over Java, C, and the like.
It's not that big a deal. An array in Perl is like an array of Object
in Java, or an array of void* in C.
Like jwz said, if only they had done TRT and made intrinsics
inherit (or appear to) from Object, it wouldn't be an issue
in Java either.
--
John Porter
So take a pointed stick and touch Piggy's eyes
He's gonna turn and leave you a big surprise
