From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T20:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal?

At 9:14 AM +0900 8/19/03, Mark Wilson wrote:
>While we're still on the subject of Python and Guido Von Rossum's 
>blog entry, I noted the following:
>
>"but for me the high point of the evening was Miguel de Icaza's 
>excitement over Python's feature which makes text files iterators 
>yielding the lines of the file in succession, so that you can write
>
>for line in open(filename):
>       ...process line... "
>
>At which point I sighed.

Hey, it could have been worse--you could have been sitting between 
them when these great revelations were happening... :)
-- 
                                         Dan

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