At 10:21 AM -0700 7/10/02, John Porter wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: >> I'm not sure that the place to enforce read-onlyness is at the >> string/buffer level. Doing it at the PMC level is more likely the >> right place to do it. > >Yes; but what about non-PMC variables? Generally speaking, there aren't any. Everything else (in this case the buffer/string things) is for internal use only. Languages aren't supposed to expose strings directly. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunkThread Previous | Thread Next