Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > Apple, around the dawn of time, decided > that C constants like 'TEXT' (yes, those are single quotes) would > compile to the uint32_t 0x54455854
They weren't C constants originally, they were Pascal constants, and it made sense at the time given the way the Pascal compiler they were using handled string literals. They also worked okay as multi-character char literals in the early C compilers used on the Mac. It's unfortunate that gcc gets persnickety about those. > I initially thought that 'bytes' > was the appropriate type. Unfortunately, bytes is mutable, and I think > it makes sense to hash these constants (and some code in aepack.py > does). Is this another indication that we should have an immutable version of the bytes type? -- 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
