Re: overloaded num types, but not string types?

2002-07-26 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
On Wednesday, 2002-07-24, 20:29, CEST, Hal Daume III wrote: > I was wondering if anyone's thought of overloading string literals in > the same way that numeric literals are overloaded. I know that I tend > to use PackedStrings for almost everything, primarly due to the RegExp > stuff and efficien

overloaded num types, but not string types?

2002-07-24 Thread Hal Daume III
I was wondering if anyone's thought of overloading string literals in the same way that numeric literals are overloaded. I know that I tend to use PackedStrings for almost everything, primarly due to the RegExp stuff and efficiency. This means my code is littered with "unpackPS" and "packString"