Re: [bug-gawk] useless array length abstraction

[arnold]

Hi.

"Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I propose the attached patch that removes the alength function and cleans
> up this issue.

This is OK, but is not quite complete. There are, I think, two uses
in symbol.c and one in gawkapi.c where direct access to xxx->table_size
should be replaced by assoc_empty.  Please fix those as well and then
push to master.

> But taking another step back, I'm not sure why these array methods are
> implemented as an array of function pointers instead of as a struct
> with a field for each method.

This would be a step forward.  If you can work up a patch for that for
review, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Arnold