
Nov. 3, 2003
5:34 a.m.
On Friday 31 October 2003 12:08 pm, Michael Hudson wrote:
More than that in the good cases. Something I forgot was that you'd probably have to knock variable length types on the head.
That's something I've always wondered about -- what exactly is a "variable length type" and why are they special? From what I gather, they're types (long, str, and tuple are the main ones I know of) whose struct is actually of variable size -- rather than contain a pointer to a variable-size thing, they contain the variable-size thing themselves. What do we gain from them? (if there's some documentation I overlooked, feel free to point me to it.) Thanks, Jeremy