Prothon should not borrow Python strings!

Roger Binns rogerb at rogerbinns.com
Mon May 24 17:26:43 EDT 2004


Mark Hahn wrote:
> Is there any dynamic language that already does this right for us to steal
> from or is this new territory? I know for sure that I don't want to steal
> Java's streams. I remember hating them with a passion.

Java's bytes being signed also caused no end of annoyance for me.
In our protocol marshalling code (thankfully mostly auto generated)
there was lots of code just to turn the signed bytes back into
unsigned bytes.

(I also *very* strongly agree with Paul.)

Roger





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