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Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation andthe difficulty to fix bugs

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From:
Jim Cromie
Date:
June 3, 2008 19:04
Subject:
Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation andthe difficulty to fix bugs
Message ID:
4845F7EC.9000000@gmail.com
David Nicol wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:10 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 1. We don't have a binary data type.  (We dont distinguish character
>> data from octet data and its easy to inadvertently cause one to be
>> treated as the other with surprising results.)
>>     
>
> I have been for some time in favor of introducing a
> string-of-characters data type which would be a tree of some kind
> rather than a contiguous block.  So if new data is to be added to the
>   

what you want is Ropes

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