tolf and detab

[Yao G.]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:44:09 -0500, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Walter Bright:
>> If you want to conclude that Python is better at processing files, you  
>> need to
>> show it using each language doing it a way well suited to that  
>> language, rather
>> than burdening one so it uses the same method as the less powerful one.
>
> byLine() yields a char[], so if you want to do most kinds of strings  
> processing or you want to store the line (or parts of it), you have to  
> idup it. So in this case Python is not significantly less powerful than  
> D.
>
> [snip] And you have to [be] thankful for my benchmarks. [snip]
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

<g> What's next? Will you demand attribution like the time Andrei  
presented the ranges design?