Warp wrote:
> Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>>   So you can't have arrays?
> 
>> You can, but not in the sense of a contiguous block of memory containing 
>> the data sense.
> 
>   But then the answer is "no".

I don't think Mike read the papers. Of course you can have an array of 
contiguous memory. You declare it as an array of structs, just like you 
would in C.

They even have a mechanism whereby you can declare a struct with a 
definite memory layout that multiple different languages can reference, 
and an operator that says "treat this as the representation of an 
object", which basically adds the vtable after the fact for your 
particular program. I.e., you can cast an object in memory from a flat 
data structure into a full object-oriented object with inheritance and 
methods and all that, without moving the memory that holds the fields. 
And since you're sharing that memory with different languages, you can 
have the different languages cast it into different objects without 
munging it up for any one particular language.

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