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Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
From: Arne Vajhøj <a...@vajhoej.dk>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:14 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 1 2008 7:52 pm
Subject: Re: Collection.size behavior
Mark Space wrote: But changing that would make a lot of existing code not compile. > Benjamin wrote: >> Does anyone know the reason that Collection.size returns >> Integer.MAX_VALUE when the the collection size is greater than that? >> The reason I'm asking is because we, the Python (programming language) >> developers, are considering imitating this with our sequences. It >> seems to be that this is akin to silently lying and could be quite >> confusing. Am I missing some practical benefit from this? > I'm with you -- don't lie. > I'd return a long, just to be safer, or maybe some equivalent of BigNum. Arne You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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