[JASS] Usage of ArrayList in Jass?

[xD.Schurke]

today i had too much freetime... so I started working on an ArrayList System
which can store objects (in this case structs). the arraylist itself is a struct (so you better can handle it like a normal variable) but it stores the objects in a global.

So do you think such a system could be usefull?

You would not have to attach structs to any handles, you just could store them and use them later

globals
     private ArrayList blub
endglobals

function didu takes nothing returns nothing
     set blub = ArrayList.create(100) //creates an ArrayList with 100slots
     call blub.add(0,anystruct) //0 = index
endfunction

this would look equal to that...
so wirte down what you think, or just flame me since i get such awful ideas^^

 

[Deaod]

already done --> dynamic arrays.

 

[xD.Schurke]

aare u sure that dynamic arrays are the same, cause the ArrayList System would have many more features

 

[PurplePoot]

A classic ArrayList is basically how warcraft implements arrays in the first place. The only thing you're really missing is pulling out indexes.

 

[LeP]

you could use the [] operator instead of the ugly .add(<index>, <data>).
And you should only write those list to learn because we already have dary and linked lists.

 

[xD.Schurke]

i wanted to add more functionality to the exsiting arrays, but seems not to be a good idea