Re: Why can't I create a zero length array

[Roger M. Burkhart]

The problem reported by Kevin Crowston of not being able to create a
zero-length array is definitely a bug.  swarm-1.0.2 won't help, but the
problem will get fixed in future releases.  The only workaround for now
is to make sure you don't try to create an array of zero length.

--Roger

> Creating a zero-length array appears to be illegal.  This appears to be a
> bug, as the documentation says of count that "Any non-negative value
> including zero is valid." (from
> http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/swarmdocs/src/collections/Array.html).
> I'm using 1.0.0, but the release notes for later versions don't seem to
> mention this problem.  (I'll download 1.0.2 anyway.)
> 
> Here's the backtrace:
> 
> *** event raised for error: InvalidAllocSize
> *** function: _i_Zone_c__allocBlock_(), file: Zone.m, line: 296
> > Requested allocation size must be at least one byte.
> > (Requested allocation size was zero.)


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