On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> That's one way to do it, sure. You can always look at a string as a bounded
> byte buffer. One of the core 'string' types is "series of 8-bit bytes". We
> couldn't manage JPEG images too well without that. ;)
Hm. How do you convert the bytes into integers so you can do arithmetic
with them? (In other words, how do you write unpack('c') and friends.)
> Seriously, though, what are you trying to accomplish with providing generic
> access to memory? Perhaps if you had a solid application in mind it'd make
> working out what would be needed to support it easier.
I'm thinking of porting GCC, of course <G>. However, I'm thinking that
pretty much any c-like language is going to want somthing like this.
-=- James Mastros
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