Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:04:56 -0600 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:04:47 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.194.31 X-Trace: sv3-BL8qvq9vUwwiv7L+V75a5HakmE26Z24PK1/V7pv/Ui4al0CW5SpmwuPDeU8KF1gUf5k+hsEyCvsf7D1!rbCQ5RnTkV+Wp3lX8qJ6t2CbvdjhYOnT6cAXdLSk49uW96cFgHRTd67Q94Zlr9jnu++gFfhACt70!fFQcvBIrA4nbIbM6Fr5+h6CYQqaTJ5i/jRisl70pOhJvcw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1797 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10121 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. 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". Patricia