On 8/29/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/29/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The type consistency and predictability is more important to me. Why is it essential that string views be a different type, rather than an internal implementation detail, like long vs int? Today's strings can already return a new object or an existing one which happens to be equal. Is this just a matter of efficiency, or are you making a fundamental distinction? -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
