On Sunday 10 March 2002 01:32, Melvin Smith wrote: > I think it would be useful to add an init method for PMCs which takes > a size argument constructor since there will be times when > a language implementor wants to created a sized type. > > Right now init takes no arguments. > > It will definitely be important for C style languages where most things > are structs, classes or static arrays. > > I personally think that it should take this argument by > default rather than being overloaded (all in interest of less bloat, I'd > rather just modify the existing init). > > Any objections?
On a side note, did anyone read the "Is Java's 'new' harmful?" article in DDJ? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]