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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:53:27 +1100
Subject: Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I don't know about TCL, but in Hypertalk, when I said everything is a
> string, I meant it. If you want a list of strings, you create one big
> string using some delimiter (usually spaces, commas or newlines).

Fair enough. As a system, that works reasonably cleanly... if a little
inefficiently, since you need to delimit everything. But hey, your
arrays are first-class objects by definition, and that's a good thing!

ChrisA