Support array of strings

[vlkv]

This is not possible:

struct Foo inline {
    Bars [][]char;
}

So, at the moment we have to do:

struct Str inline {
    Value []char;
}
struct Foo inline {
    Bars []Str;
}

This is not very convenient.

[inkeliz]

That is a known limitation, but I'm not sure how to proper fix.

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If you have one function such as Foo.Bars() []string, then it needs to create a new array and, maybe, encoding all strings.

It have two alternatives:

• Create functions to get string per index: Foo.BarsAt(index int) string.
  • That allows to zero-copy, since it call will return a single string (which is, usually, just one pointer). Or, in the worse situation, it will encode a single string.
• Create a "class/struct" such as StringArrayViewer: Foo.Bars() []StringArrayViewer.
  • That will return array of fixed-size struct, which contains the start position of the first string. Then, StringArrayViewer have methods such as GetAt(index int).

The second case, is basically what happens in your schema (but instead of known-type, you need to create your custom type). 😅