Excerpts from David Fetter's message of lun sep 05 21:05:10 -0300 2011:
> On brief inspection, it appears that each of these would be better
> served, at least functionally, with some kind of enumerated type.
> Might it be worth trying to micro-optimize this case for a one-byte
> enum? Or maybe something like the varvarlena pattern?
What would be the point? It works pretty well already. It doesn't need
fixing.
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