* Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-10 22:45]: Nice email address. :-P
> This evening I started playing with String::Smart (the name is > as provisional as everything else). Something with “language”, “type”, “quoting” or “escaping” would be more appropriate I think. > In general a String::Smart string knows which transformations > are currently applied to a string and when you ask for a > particular representation of that string it computes the path > from the current encoding to the desired encoding and applies > the transformations in the appropriate order. Have you seen Tom Moertel’s article on applying Haskell to this? http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/10/18/a-type-based-solution-to-the-strings-problem See also String::EscapeCage, which was discussed recently on this list, and which is just as horribly named. :-) It differs in that it doesn’t address the chaining you mention, and by hooking itself into tainting. And I’m almost positive that I have seen one more module that tries to address the exact same issue. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
