On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 12/19/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> >>> - a spec for the string unification (Perhaps Fredrik has done some >>> work on it in one of those threads that I haven't opened yet?) >> >> (I haven't abandoned this, but it hasn't been a top priority; partially >> because Larry Hastings work on smarter concatenation has showed that >> "lazy evaluation" can work in today's Python, and partially due to the >> schedule/discussion issues you write about.) > > Now's the time for that work to come out of the closet. Should I hold > off on the basic unification-Guido-style (discarding str and renaming > unicode to str, essentially) or can I start that now and will the new > work be able to build on top of that?
My recollection is that Larry said he could make it work with Unicode with little difficulty -- I suspect he's either on vacation or ignoring this thread, so I'm renaming and cc'ing him. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I support family values -- Addams family values" --www.nancybuttons.com _______________________________________________ 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
