Re: [Swarm-Support] lists of lists?

[Rick Riolo]

I think the answers are:

1) yes, you can have a list of lists
   (or a list pointing to any other objects)

2) No.  You'd have to write your own getCount to do that.

3) No.  Again, you'd have to write that yourself.

- r

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Tim Kohler wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:12:54 -0800
> From: Tim Kohler <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Swarm-Support] lists of lists?
> 
> Hello everyone. I could not find information on the following in the archive 
> or the support documents; sorry if I just missed it:
> 
> 1.) Is it possible to create a list (call it list1) whose members might be 
> other lists?
> 
> 2.) If so, will list1 be able to report the total number of its contained 
> objects (that is, including all the objects on its member lists) using the 
> -getCount method?
> 
> 3.) When an index is built for list1 and it traverses the collection, will 
> it also "reach into" the member lists and index each of them automatically?
> 
> Thanks, Tim Kohler
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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