JB> I see no reason for it to slow things dowm access to the string
JB> constant should be as easy as access to the executable code that
JB> uses it.

That's what I thought, too.  It seems that Andrew was thinking about 
speed in terms of compiling.  To my mind, that's almost a non-event.

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