On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:47, Butler, Gerald wrote: > If I may interject for a moment:
Let me start by saying that I have not drunk the Unicode cool-aid. I'm not at all certain that the overhead required to do all of what Parrot wants to do is warranted, BUT that's beside the point. Parrot is doing things the way it's doing them, and the time for debate was a few months or at latest weeks ago, as far as I can tell. > I have been following the discussion of strings on this list over the last few > weeks. It seems that there is somewhat of a disconnect in various definitions > of what is a "string". It seems as though there needs to be a hierarchy to > this with a little more clear definition. May I humbly propose the following: > > 1. String - low-level, abstract, base class (or in Perl6 terms role -- > I think) which represents a "logically" contiguous series of Parrot Int You say that you think there should be a hierarchy, but you're just throwing out broad concepts and applying them equally to terminology, representation and implementation. As such, there is no good way to respond to what you suggest, nor any way to determine how much work you are proposing be performed in order to bend existing code to your suggested paradigm. A string is what Dan described in his various postings on strings. Nuff said. ################################### Aside from the rest of your message, and bearing no logical impact on the rest of it, I'd like to call out: > The information contained in this e-mail message is privileged and/or > confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity > named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this communication in error, please immediately notify us by telephone > (330-668-5000), and destroy the original message. Thank you. Need I point out http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
