Adam DePrince wrote: > No reason we can't make other string operations views as well ... > concatenation is one example. If I recall, that's how snobol handles > strings, view upon view upon view.
I don't think it was quite as bad as that. If I remember correctly, when you took a substring you didn't get a view of a view, but another view of the underlying layer holding the characters. And there was some way of detecting when parts of the underlying buffer were no longer used and freeing them. One strange thing Snobol did do was effectively intern every string, though. And it had some weird-assed name for them like "natural variable" or some such... -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
