Re: Some changes I'd like to see
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:39:15 +1300, The Johnson Family <thedjs at INAME.COM>
wrote:
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>> STRINGS:
>> Implementing a string type will allow Euphoria to store "Hello World" as
>> "Hello World" (13 bytes)
>> instead of {72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100} (42 bytes)
>> thus preventing menory and disk from getting that uncomfortable bloated
>> feeling.
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>AFAIK (As Far As I Know), the string "Hello World" is stored in memory as
>"Hello World", not as the euphoria sequence. This is just euphorias way of
>displaying sequences in an easy to read form, and printing to disk is just
>another type of displaying, as far as euphoria is concerned. Of course,
>printf can be used to ovveride the default display method.
>
>Nick
Well, we're really not supposed to know how it is stored in memory, but the
good book( the Euphoria documentation) indicates sequences and strings
are one and the same thing and there is no real distinction between the
binary numbers that represent ASCII strings and the strings themselves.
According to that logic, Irv has the right of it on this one.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
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