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From:
Bernhard Schmalhofer
Date:
February 20, 2006 09:26
Subject:
Re: WRT *BooleanArray
Message ID:
43F9FB9D.6070901@gmx.de
Bob Rogers schrieb:

>   From: Leopold Toetsch <lt@toetsch.at>
>   Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:55:03 +0100
>in order to store the contents of a PMC into a boolean array?  What do I
>   et al. I think, if you use a BooleanArray with compact storage you are 
>   knowing why and don't need automatic conversion to/from float, string, 
>   nor PMC.
>
>   What do you think?
>   leo
>
>That would mean that I can't pass a boolean array to code that wants to
>operate on a generic array, which seems limiting.
>
>					-- Bob Rogers
>					   http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/
>  
>
As ResizableBooleanArray is meant for general use by HLLs I wouldn't want to
put any special restrictions on it. Everything that can be evaluated in 
a Boolean context should be usable for setting the bits in an Array.

Is there a performance penalty for having these methods?

Regards, Bernhard


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