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From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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On 2/15/2016 11:34 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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, ...
>>>> 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 [...] So, no: You'll never see a method
>>> call with anything like Integer.MAX_VALUE arguments.
>> 16K arguments is still absolutely unreadable.
>
> That all said and true, I now feel like pointing out what is known
> to the experts, but perhaps not quite so for newcomers:
>
> The Node constructor in the first Post might still see MAX_VALUE
> elements within children, because the constructor can also be
> called with a single array (and not only by individual Nodes).

Very relevant point IMHO.

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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