"Bob Ippolito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 for polymorphic strings.
A strong +1 here also. > > This would give us the best of both worlds: compact representations > for ASCII and Latin-1, full 32 bit text when needed, and the > possibility to implement further optimizations when necessary. As I understand current plans, Python 3 will have a polymorphic integer type that handles details of switching between the two current implementations, one for efficiency, and one for generality, behind the scenes. I think it would be a great selling point for people to adopt Python 3 if it also handled the even worse nastiness of text forms behind the scenes, and kept the efficiency of special case uses (as in all ascii chars) while making the transition to generality more seamless than it is now. These two similar features would be enough, to me, to make Py3 more than just 2.x with cruft removed. Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
