Re: resize_array (PerlArray)

2002-08-02 Thread Florian Haeglsperger
That "Haegl" was actually me, Florian Haeglsperger (actually Häglsperger, but I don't mind). I accidently sent the mail using the wrong e-mail account. It is not my intention to hide myself behind a stupid nickname like "rEaLkEwLgUy2o0o" or something like that ;-)

Re: Mutable vs immutable strings

2002-07-10 Thread Florian Haeglsperger
I'm following this list only for a very short time now, and I don't have very much programming experience, so tell me if all this is pure nonsense. But isn't this partly addressed with COW? The way I understood Copy On Write, it means that if you "copy" a string, only some pointers are copied and