Invisible wrote:
> Yeah. It's a hoot. You use one library that uses array-X, and another 
> library that uses array-Y, and now your program must waste time 
> converting from one to the other. Great fun. :-/

Could be worse. Could be Ada, where you have things like "library of arrays 
holding bytes in memory" and "library of arrays holding bytes from I/O 
operations" and they aren't the same and there's (AFAIK) no standard 
conversion functions.

Great, if your computer isn't using 8-bit bytes for memory. For all the rest 
of us, rather a PITA.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
   unable to read this, even at arm's length."

Post a reply to this message