Le dimanche 25 novembre 2001, à 09:38 , Bowerbird@... a écrit :

>>   there can be perfectly valid reasons [imagine a spreadsheet]
>>   for having xx thousand handles each capable of containing text
>>   and needing to be searched.  even a simple database...
>
> but it is possible to concatenate all those handles, right?
>
> or even to treat them generally as one handle,
> but split them out to put 'em in edit fields, right?

i discussed this in length with some wise souls recently. because in 
fact i wanted to do something like that. because of other factors, 
specific to the nature of lochness [and applications of this type], we 
decided that it wouldn't bring anything useful.

i think, as i hinted, that in this case the answer is threads...

:-j