From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-02-03T21:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: %L, %l revisited

On Monday 03 February 2003 05:35 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> This is misguided, IMNO (N = Naive).  24 bytes of wasted space - who
> cares?  tabto(0) is a waste of processing - who cares?  Neither of
> them is in a tight loop.

when you write a cgi app and you're displaying some record detail that repeats 
a string loop potentially hundreds of times then these bytes add up. the poor 
soul on a dialup connection cares. and besides, nothing personal, but that 
opinion is what leads to much of the bloated/sluggish software we have today.

> The utility or otherwise of any string-formatting feature comes down
> to its elegance, to make code more pleasant to read and write.

i agree, for the programmer, that's just as important.

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tom sawyer, aka transami
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