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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal
Date: 1999/09/23
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In article <m3vh922o3u.fsf@vault80.infomatch.bc.ca>,
  Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com> wrote:
> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> >    Labels: constant array (Command) of Command_String_Ptr :=
> >       (Cut      => new String'("Cu&t"),
> >        Copy     => new String'("&Copy"),
> >
> >        Paste    => new String'("&Paste"),
> >        ...);
>
> The problem with this approach is that the data is duplicated. It is
> both in the static data area of the program (i.e. the string
> constants), and in the heap.

Perhaps. But unless I'm operating in an extremely low memory
environment, why should I care? An if memory is that limited, I probably
will be using a language subset that doesn't allow dynamic allocation
anyway.

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T.E.D.


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