Ah. That is a lot more concrete than the idea I had in mind, though on reflection, it is the same principle.

This particular thing is something I’ve been doing instinctively – f.ex. one of the reasons to prefer dynamic, garbage-collected languages is that they tend to make this much easier, whereas in something like C, it’s generally a lot less work to pick arbitrary limits. But I hadn’t thought about it in such concrete terms, and I agree that the concreteness is useful.

Thanks for the explanation.

Makeshifts last the longest.