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| Date | 2011-11-20 17:18 -0500 |
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| From | Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes |
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| Organization | SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source |
On 11/20/2011 5:04 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 11/20/2011 1:58 PM, Eric Sosman wrote: > ... >> Put it this way: If I had told sara "An ArrayList contains >> C-style pointers to the objects it holds," would I have been >> telling the truth? >> > > No, but if you had said "An ArrayList contains pointers to the objects > it holds." you would have been telling the exact truth. Yes. > The baggage that C added to pointers was an unfortunate aberration, not > something that should ever be considered to be the default definition of > "pointer". C/C++ pointers has certainly caused a lot of problems over the years. But the languages would not have been the same without them. And I even doubt that they would have been as popular. C and C++ was not chosen because alternatives without "do anything you want pointers" did not exist. Arne
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Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:01 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-20 13:05 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:11 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-20 21:58 +0000
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-20 14:08 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:50 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-20 18:06 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 20:28 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 16:30 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:35 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 17:19 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 16:58 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:04 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-20 17:18 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:48 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:12 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 20:44 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:16 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 20:15 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-20 22:25 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:11 -0500
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