From: Donald G P. <dg...@ni...> - 2005-05-18 14:00:53
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> #241 is about allowing several commands that do case-sensitive > comparisons of strings to do case-insensitive too. http://tip.tcl.tk/241 There was some mention in the chatroom today about use cases that jutify this proposal. A situation with large lists, where case-insensitive searching led to shimmering led to performace problems requiring an awkward rewrite using two lists instead of one. Pascal? Joe? Have I captured anything like the truth in that summary of a summary? Anyhow, my point is this example, this justification, is ... not ... in ... the ... TIP. Please put it there. | Don Porter Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division | | don...@ni... Information Technology Laboratory | | http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST | |______________________________________________________________________| |