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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">On 12/19/06, Fredrik Lundh
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fredrik@pythonware.com"><fredrik@pythonware.com></a> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">(I haven't abandoned this, but it hasn't been
a top priority; partially
because Larry Hastings work on smarter concatenation has showed that
"lazy evaluation" can work in today's Python, and partially due to the
schedule/discussion issues you write about.)</blockquote>
Now's the time for that work to come out of the closet.<br>
</blockquote>
At last, I can take a crack at this, now that Christmas is over. Just
double-checking:<br>
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<li>I know you want it for what are currently "unicode strings"
(Objects/unicodeobject.c). Do you <i>also</i> want it for single-byte
strings (Objects/stringobject.c)?<br>
</li>
<li>I should generate my diffs against
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/p3yk">http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/p3yk</a> ?</li>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
<br>
<i>larry</i><br>
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