Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:53 AM 9/21/2001 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Should we really be discussing encodings this early in the game?
>Shouldn't that be a detail that is none of the engine's business (but
>belongs to the individual data type implementations)?  That's the
>abstraction we strive for in Python's implementation
>(only partially successfully, for various mostly historic reasons).

Generally speaking the engine doesn't care. The string libraries do, of 
course, but the engine's not that interested. It either deals with things 
abstractly or as sets of sequence of integers. (For regex work, mainly)

Things are as specified as they are so that string libraries can start to 
get built.

                                        Dan

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