[Python-Dev] The "lazy strings" patch

[John J Lee]

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