@BT my point is that scope control -- and capacity constraining
is a form of scope control -- is a fundamentally important part of software engineering. I for one am glad they spend time on areas other than bytecode support for functions netting more than 64k bytes. I think that every alternate code/data path adds to the combinatorial explosion of testing, so yes, alternate codepaths for bigger indexes do add complexity. Even otherwise, there are possibly other downstream effects of relaxing this constraint. —
Dilum Ranatunga 35 secs ago