On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > Evan Driscoll <drisc...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >>People like you -- who write to assumptions which are not even remotely >>guaranteed by the spec -- are part of the reason software sucks. > ... >>This email is a bit harsher than it deserves -- but I feel not by much. > > I don't see how you could feel the least bit justified. Well meaning, > if unhelpful, lies about the nature Python strings in order to try to > convince someone to follow what you think are good programming practices > is one thing. Maliciously lying about someone else's code that you've > never seen is another thing entirely.
Actually, he is justified. It's one thing to work in C or assembly and write code that depends on certain bit-pattern representations of data (although even that causes trouble - assuming that sizeof(int)==sizeof(int*) isn't good for portability), but in a high level language, you cannot assume any correlation between objects and bytes. Any code that depends on implementation details is risky. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
