Re: [Haskell-cafe] Specify array or list size?

On 20050507T093613-0700, Fergus Henderson wrote:

On 07-May-2005, Hamilton Richards wrote:

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As far as I know, the last programming language that included arrays' sizes in their types was Standard Pascal,

There have been many such languages since Standard Pascal. For example C, C++, C#, Java, Ada, VHDL, and NU-Prolog.

C, C++ and Java do not belong to that list. I can't speak about the others, not being very familiar with them. In C and C++, the declaration int n[50]; introduces an array variable with size 50 having the type "array of int". The size is *not* part of the type. In Java, the array size is not given in the declaration at all (instead, it is given in the new expression), and is not part of the type. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.info/ Blogi - http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/ Toys - http://www.cc.jyu.fi/yhd/toys/