On 2006-11-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti:
>> scriptref = glk.fileref_create_by_prompt('Transcript+TextMode',
>> 'WriteAppend', 0)
>
> That "+" sign seems useless. A space looks enough to me. The
> functions can accept case-agnostic strings and ignore spaces
> inside them. Example:
> ('transcript textmode ', 'writeappend', 0)
That's pretty cool. Not as pretty, but easier for users,
possibly.
>> Parsing the combinable bitfield contants might be slowish,
>> though.
>
> I think you have to test if this is true for your situation.
> Management of interned strings is probably fast enough
> (compared to the rest of things done by the Python interpreter)
> for many purposes.
Agreed. I meant I'd have to later test if it's were fast enough.
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