How I would love if IBM Lotus would promote OOP in LotusScript

In the Lotus Support RSS feed I saw a technote about what to do if the you need an array with an index larger than an Integer (32767). Their suggestion is to use a List with string keys!! A List!!

Why not promote the OO features of LotusScript and provide an ArrayWrapper class that simply handles multiple arrays internally and a Long for the counter? I know it would have limitations such as the fact that you cannot use it in Forall statements but still… An object would be so much more elegant. I know OOP is more advanced but if you need such large arrays you really should know what you are doing.

I’m baffled – why not use the opportunity?

Technote 1221020: How to use a list to get around the Array size limit