Re: PDD 2, vtables

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:55:17PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Umm, one way or another I suspect UTF-8 will be in there.
> 
> I suspect so too but very grudgingly.

If we abstract the string handling nicely, it can be added on later or even
separately. (Credo: We don't have to write all of Perl 6 at once.) Yes, UTF8
is a bit of a pig to deal with, but since most of the world's data is still 
7-bit, it's almost certainly worth it.

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