Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > ..., and I would guess a 64-bit Java would > also raise the limit.
Even in a 64-bit Java, the _type_ returned by String.length() is 'int', and is thus at most (2**31 - 1). This isn't a problem for strings, which never get that long in practice, but for some other Java datatypes (e.g., Buffer) it is a real problem. Score one for untyped languages. -- Alan Bawden -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
