Fredrik Lundh schrieb: >> I believe it would noticeably simplify the implementation if there is > > only a single internal representation. > > and I, wearing my string algorithm implementor hat, tend to disagree > with that. writing source code that can be compiled into efficient code > for multiple representations is mostly trivial, even in C.
I wouldn't call SRE's macro trickeries "trivial", though. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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