Problems with empty Arrays and Dicts in untyped languages

[Joe Shaw]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:49 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> That said, I don't think the idea of a new DBUS_TYPE_ARRAY_EMPTY or
> something is crazy inherently, but we'd need to think seriously about
> the implications it has on the higher level bindings.  
>
> I'm not sure about .NET though.  Would DBUS_TYPE_EMPTY_ARRAY be a
> problem for the Mono bindings?

If I understand correctly, in the event of getting DBUS_TYPE_EMPTY_ARRAY
we could reflect to see what array type the caller was expecting and
then return an empty array of that type.  But that's pretty gross.

Joe