On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:04:58AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> All this talk about slices reminds me of this:
>
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-10/msg00024.html
>
> Although in this thread the idea was more in the way of an internal
> implementation (e.g. to create COW copies), I wouldn't mind having
> the capability of creating "virtual substrings" visible also in the
> Perl level because the fact that strings aren't seen as one-dimensional
> arrays of character still bothers my black little C heart... That we
> have both substr() and splice() feels... unclean :-)
Which in turn reminds me of a patch by Jan Dubois that implemented copy on
write for perl5:
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-07/msg00550.html
Is it time to experiment with this in bleadperl?
[hmm. that's a reply-to perl5-porters question]
Nicholas Clark
