Yeah, but emacs isn't written in any of those languages. Q.E.D. :-)
=Austin --- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:09 PM -0600 10/20/02, Luke Palmer wrote: > >What's the plan on having properties, or attributes (depending on > how > >far we're taking it), on individual characters in a string? I think > >it's an essential feature, as Lisp has shown us. If there's an > >argument otherwise, I'm all ears. > > While they're certainly useful, I think essential's an awfully strong > > word there. You'll note that, just off the top of my head, C, BASIC, > Fortran, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Pascal, Oberon, Modula (2 and 3), > Forth, Eiffel, Haskell, BLISS, C++, C#, COBOL, PL/I, APL, B, and BCPL > > all don't do character properties/attributes. > -- > Dan > > --------------------------------------"it's like > this"------------------- > Dan Sugalski even samurai > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > teddy bears get drunk __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
