Linked List Vs Array

BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax Programming/Linked List Vs Array

The forum is locked. These are the original blitzbasic.com forums, kept so they can still be read. No new topics, replies or edits can be made here. To join in, head over to the Blitz3D+ forums.

Why shouldn't it use the compare method?
This way you define what makes one of your own types larger / smaller than another.

and it only sorts if you say it to do so.

Hakea: Yes you can sort arrays, if you implement a function to do so. This way it would be faster than the list would normally be in sorting at all (quicksort or any other n log n sort algorithm) as the list can't use "indexed" sort algorithms
otherwise no as array is no type in BM and so can't have the same functionality as a list.
but you can't slice a list on the other side, so ...

perhaps this is why TList has the "fromarray" and "toarray" methodes? ;)