[ nice-Feature Requests-1445071 ] Introduce * (star) for declaring lists

Feature Requests item #1445071, was opened at 2006-03-07 11:58
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Category: nicedoc
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Francis Barber (fbarber)
Summary: Introduce * (star) for declaring lists

Initial Comment:
Nice already introduced the ? character for declaring 
an option type. Like in DTD, you could introduce the 
* for declaring a 'many' type.

Something like this:

class Order {
}

class Customer {

  // a customer has many orders.
  // this expands to:
  // List<Order> _orderList;

  Order* _orderList;
  
  // Beside List, a set of items could also be 
  // addressed.
  // this expands to:
  // Set<Order> _orderSet;

  Order% _orderSet;
  
}

One would say: "Eeek, this looks like C". And 
surprise: It *is* C.

Since in C, a pointer to an order is identical with 
an array of orders.



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