22 Oct
2006
22 Oct
'06
12:04 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Mark Roberts wrote: [...]
If there's a widely recognized argument against this, a link will likely sate my curiosity.
Quoting from Martin v. Loewis earlier on the same day you posted: """ I think this specific approach will find strong resistance. It has been implemented many times, e.g. (apparently) in NextStep's NSString, and in Java's string type (where a string holds a reference to a character array, a start index, and an end index). Most recently, it was discussed under the name "string view" on the Py3k list, see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-August/003282.html Traditionally, the biggest objection is that even small strings may consume insane amounts of memory. """ John