On Thursday, August 02, 2012 19:06:32 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > Sure, you could have a function which specifically operates on ranges of > > code units and understands how unicode works and is written accordingly, > > but then that function is specific to ranges of code units and is only > > generic with regards to various ranges of code units. It can't operate on > > generic ranges like functions such as map and filter can. > > Yes, and I think that's exactly what the doctor prescribed here.
It may be the best approach for the lexer (though I'm not convinced; I'll have to think about it more), but Walter seems to be arguing that that strings should be treated as ranges of code units in general, which I think is completely wrong. - Jonathan M Davis
