On Sunday 07 May 2017 12:05:40 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-05-07 08:20, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > MSElang and MSEpas (a subset of Free Pascal) have "string8" (utf-8) > > "string16" (utf-16) "string32" (ucs-4) > > That sounds good. > > > and "bytestring" for any 8-bit encoding and > > binary data. > > Why this? Why not simply Byte or an array of bytes. The term "bytestring" > introduces confusion again. > Because of compatibility with string8 where the index base can be 1 and string concatenation.
> Also why bother with any other text encoding than the Unicode standard. The > Unicode standard was designed to support ALL languages and finally get rid > of the 8-bit mess. All you need is conversions from all the 8-bit encodings > to Unicode, and then be done with it. > You probably never made software for bus systems and communication with hardware devices. There it often happens that bytestreams contain binary and text components. A reference counted buffer datatype which can be concatenated from strings and binary data is convenient and effective. > >> Java makes this simple. One string type (class), one character type > >> and 8 other primitive data types. Much simpler and easier to understand > >> than the mess Object Pascal has, thanks to FPC and Delphi. > > > > MSElang has been designed as a high performance language so it can't be > > so simple. > > Huh? Java is an excellent performance language. Please ignore all > statements on the Internet older than say 5 years. The Java language has > come a long way, and is *very* fast now. In fact, it actually generates > binary code that is magnitudes faster than what FPC can achieve. There are situations where 8 bit string code units are the best, there are others where 16 bit codeunits are appropriate and some where 32 bit codeunits provide the best performance. I like to control that myself instead to use an opaque string class. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
