On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:59 PM, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> > > The same approaches also apply to eggs needing the full > > numeric tower, though with UTF-8 there's less chance of > > breakage when mixing eggs which do and don't use the utf8 egg. > > I would say that UTF-8 has *more* chance of causing undetected > breakage, because UTF-8 strings have an interpretation as core > strings, whereas bignums, ratnums, compnums etc. don't look > like numbers to the core, and errors will be thrown. > Well, less chance of breakage, but more chance the breakage goes undetected. Possibly a much worse situation, but it's possible to know a priori that there won't be breakage, e.g. the non-utf8 egg is format, and you're not doing any padding or truncating. On the other hand, it's pretty much impossible to mix numbers and non-numbers eggs. -- Alex
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