Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net>: > Tim Peters: > > > What would the point be? That is, instead of "why not?", why? As to "why > > not?", there's something about elevating what's basically an optimization > > hack to a type that makes me squirm. > > Change the name from 'istr' to 'symbol' and add a mild case of language envy > and you'll see why ;-) But in Lisp, symbols and strings really are completely separate types. That's not the case in Python, and you still haven't really given a reason why they should be. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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