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> Using an array without having to (manually) calculate the size of the objects contained within is like the major triumph of OO. I've used arrays in countless

by patrec 8y ago

> Using an array without having to (manually) calculate the size of the objects contained within is like the major triumph of OO. I've used arrays in countless OO and non-OO programming languages, and I do not recall ever having to manually calculate the size of objects contained therein – what are you talking about? Only C requires crap like that, but precisely because it doesn't have first class arrays.

patrec 8y ago
Downvoters, care to elaborate what you think is wrong with the above? Literally even fortran can do better than size_t len_a = sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]); or my_pseudo_foo_array = (foo*) malloc(len * sizeof(foo));
- Gibbon1 8y ago
  You're not wrong. Even BASIC was better than this.