Re: functions, packages & characters

[David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:37:51 -0600, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> I thought I said that if you make the buffer large enough, it wouldn't
> be so slow -- but it also would require a large buffer for many
> applications (if it didn't, there would be little reason to use
> unbounded strings in the first place).

Why? I can think of many cases where the normal case may be 40-50
characters, but for robustness, you need the possibility of handling
lines 1500 characters long. Nobody's really concerned about the speed of
the long case, so long as the the normal case is handled correctly, but
the long case should be handled for robustness and generality.

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