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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:54:30 -0800
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:09:18 -0500
"WokieSux282@ud0s4.net" <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

> As for including size info in arrays ... makes good sense to me. EZ
> to know what you're dealing with. Liked the old short-strings in
> Turbo - the first byte was the string length.

There's definitely an argument to be made for including bounds info as
part of the array structure. There's no argument (that I've ever heard)
to be made for making it part of the *type specification.* Any line of
reasoning that says a carton of six eggs and a carton of twelve eggs
are somehow different *kinds* of objects and their contents incomparable
is fundamentally deranged.