Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2011-01-11 20:28:26 -0500, Steven Wawryk <stev...@acres.com.au> said:
Why not choose which of these abstractions is most appropriate in a
given situation instead of trying to shoe-horn both concepts into a
single abstraction, and provide for easy conversion between them?
When character representation is the primary requirement then make it
a bidirectional range of code points. When storage representation and
random access is required then make it a random access range of code
units.
I think you're right. The need for a new concept isn't that great, and
it gets complicated really fast.
I think the only problem that we really have, is that "char[]",
"dchar[]" implies that code points is always the appropriate level of
abstraction.
