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On 2/15/2016 11:08 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 2/15/2016 10:24 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
>> On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 9:54:59 AM UTC-5, j4n bur53 wrote:
>>> I want to see the programming language that can group an
>>> *infinite* number of arguments, except maybe functional
>>> programming languages such as Haskell that have lazy lists.
>>>
>>> I guess you mean an arbirary number, i.e. any number of
>>> arguments that are representable as an array in Java,
>>> which is usually MAX_INTEGER - array_overhead. Plus the
>>> restrictions that the heap gives.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>
>> No doubt there may be a limit, likely the MAX_INTEGER, but I'd hate to
>> see valid code that hits that limit.
>
>      A single method or constructor can have only 65535 (6?) bytes
> of byte code, and filling in each slot of the array takes at least
> four byte code instructions: Push (or dup) the array reference,
> push the index, push the value, store-to-array-slot.  So, no: You'll
> never see a method call with anything like Integer.MAX_VALUE
> arguments.
>
>      Thank goodness!

16K arguments is still absolutely unreadable.

:-)

Arne

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... Popping mad <rainbow@colition.gov> - 2016-02-15 11:48 +0000
  Re: ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-02-15 07:52 -0500
    Re: ... Popping mad <rainbow@colition.gov> - 2016-02-15 13:09 +0000
      Re: ... Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 05:14 -0800
      Re: ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-02-15 08:43 -0500
      Re: ... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-02-15 13:46 +0000
        Re: ... Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 06:03 -0800
          Re: ... j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-02-15 15:54 +0100
            Re: ... Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 07:24 -0800
              Re: ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-02-15 11:08 -0500
                Re: ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-02-15 11:17 -0500
                Re: ... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-02-15 16:34 +0000
                Re: ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-02-15 11:43 -0500
                Re: ... Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-02-15 20:44 +0100
                Re: ... Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-02-15 20:44 +0100
                Re: ... Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-02-15 20:45 +0100
                Re: ... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-02-16 10:05 +0000
                Re: ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-02-15 21:46 -0500
      Re: ... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-02-15 09:34 -0500

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