On 28 January 2015 at 13:14, Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To me, "finite" is just to be taken in the common mathematical sense of > the term; in particular you could have theoretically a string of length > 10^10000. But yes, it would be reasonable to restrict oneself to strings of > length at most 2^52, so that `string.length` could always return an exact > answer. > To me it would be reasonable to restrict oneself to much shorter strings, since no existing machine has the memory to represent a string of length 2^52, nor will any in the foreseeable future. ;) VMs can always run into out-of-memory conditions. In general, there is no way to predict those. Even strings with less then the hard-coded length limit might cause you to go OOM. So providing reflection on a constant like that might do little but giving a false sense of safety. /Andreas
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