Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size

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----- Original Message -----
From: Lucius L. Hilley III <lhilley at CDC.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size


>     We need to put that male/female symbol thing that the
> Artist formerly known as Prince uses for his name into the
> Unicode character set.  We can't leave his name out. :)
>
> What this really comes to is this.
> Do we want the memory managing control that C programmers
> have to deal with?  Obviously, we don't want the pointers.
> Yes they have their advantages but they also have large
> drawbacks.  If we want pointers we can just allocate chunks
> of memory and manage it ourselves.  Do we want Multiple
> different memory types?

I stopped coding a big project in Pascal, and didn't move to Delphi, to
avoid all that. I wanted to write and run a *program* , not a memory
management unit. And i wanted fully dynamic arrays,, oops, sequences,
sorta... actually, i did make those, but there was still a large wish list
with pascal. <whine mode on > And i'd still like to have a Eu function like:
"DDE TargetName DataFieldType Where/Data". Or "Socket TargetName Write/Read
Data/Where".

> That's it.  We want our objects to be even more dynamic
> than they already are.

Has anyone tried to use those "extra" 3 bytes for anything? Will Eu keep
them as you set them, or change them in some way? I suspect a gui would make
good use of them, for formating the character. What happens to those 3 bytes
if they get swapped the the hd and back into ram?

Kat

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