On 12 Apr 2004, at 17:43, Dan Sugalski wrote:
IW: Mush together (either concatenate or substr replacement) two strings of different languages but same charset
TP: Checks to see if that's allowed. If not, an exception is thrown. If so, we do the operation. If one string is manipulated the language stays whatever that string was. If a new string is created either the left side wins or the default language is used, depending on the interpreter setting.
Does that mean that a Parrot string will always have a specific language associated with it?
Yes.
Note that the language might be "Dunno". :) There'll be a default that's assigned to input data and suchlike things, and the language markers in the strings can be overridden by code.
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