Rösberg, Tue 26.11.02 Hi Arkady,
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:54:43 +0300 (MSK), Arkady V.Belousov wrote: AB> 26-îÏÑ-2002 16:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AF>>>> Maybe I've gone too AF>>>> far with 'nightmare', but it's still handy to save address space. AB>>> This is matter of taste, how call such desicions: "silly", "nightmare", AB>>> etc. TE>> trouble to save 4 bits isn't 'silly'. it's outright 'dull' ;-) Tom, why so polite? Why not slightly saying 'crack-brained'? After all, you always omit infinitive truth and wisdom, so you do need to take care of other people's opinion.... AB>>>>> Please, don't make such silly suggestions and implementations. Making AF>>>> Really, I would not call this suggestion 'silly'. AB>>> AB>>> But results of such decisions often are silly. B-\ Probably, AB>>> most clear example of such decisions is an BIOS limits for disk AB>>> sizes: first 512M, then 2Gb, then 4Gb, then 8Gb, then 32Gb, then AB>>> 127Gb... Hmmm... the number of codepage IDs does not grow with the same speed than hard disks do. But I go for that. And I want to repeat: my previous statement is more a wish than a demand. I would likely have the number of existing codepages limited to 4096 or 16384. But if there would be new codepages introduced with higher ID's, I would not ignore them. Of course, because of the possibility of such high codepage IDs my idea is somewhat questionable. AB>>>>> full featured lookup table may be _slightly_ more complicated, but then AB>>>>> later this will not crash your (and our) head when limits will be exhausted. AF>>>> Yes, but whenever new codepages are introduced, such lookup tables AF>>>> must be maintained, this can become a cumbersome work. AB>>> Why? Actually, I starting to ask this question to myself. At meanwhile, it seems to be less effort for me to implement lookup tables than constisting on my idea. ;-) Regards, Axel. ---------- list options/archives/etc.: http://www.topica.com/lists/fd-dev unsubscribe: send blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: archive@mail-archive.com EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8Rv5.bbRv4l.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================