Re: Array initialisation
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
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I often choose arrays in preference to collections because of the better
notation for accessing and changing elements. Much more to do with code
clarity than with performance.
Patricia
Alas, if only Java supported proper operator overloading :-/
Code clarity for a fixed sized collection *maybe*. I still usually go
with collections. foo[1] isn't so concise that I fill bad about using
foo.get(1);
Indeed. There *should* be a single concise syntax for indexed access to
any integer-indexed Collection, and a reference array should just be a
special case of ArrayList in which the exact size is known at the time
of construction. That would leave primitive arrays as a performance
optimization.
I don't think the interesting case is a single reference. Here's a
simple example:
out[i][j] += in1[i][k] * in2[k][j];
Patricia
Why limit yourself to integer indexed types? Maps could make use of the
[] syntax as well:
foo["Bar"] = "Bob";
If I were to implement it, there would be two methods to override, since
Java doesn't support references the same way C++ does:
operator[](index); and operator[]=(index, value);
Of course, allowing the override of other arithmetic operations would be
useful as well.
In my opinion, if you can do it to a primitive, you should be able to do
it to a primitive wrapper.
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