Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 12 08:11:53 CEST 2004

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Guido:

> Anyway, if we really do have enough use cases for byte array
> literals, we might add them.  I still think that would be confusing
> though, because byte arrays are most useful if they are mutable: and
> then we'd have mutable literals -- blechhhh!

Perhaps the constructor for a byte array could accept a string
argument as long as it contained only ascii characters?

   h.putrequest(bytes('GET'), selector)

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