Python Strings

[John W. Baxter]

In article <8qanle$g5c$1 at newshost.accu.uu.nl>, m.faassen at vet.uu.nl 
(Martijn Faassen) wrote:

> > For other kinds of things (attributes,
> > properties, dictionary words, objects, classes, ...) the 
> > value stored is a unique ordinal number.  (So, the first
> > dictionary word that appears in the code will be 1, and
> > so on.  The first property declared will also be 1.  And
> > the first object.  Et cetera.)
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this. Does this mean you have addresses here
> as well, but in a fixed range (or array indices, if you like).

The way I've seen this done is to restrict the range of integer, and use 
the bits at one end or the other as a type indicator.  Often the low end 
is used and pointers (and their objects) are constrained to suitable 
address boundaries.  Often the high end is used and part of the address 
space is "lost".

  --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com