Aubrey Jaffer scripsit: > If anyone cares, other Unicode-supporting language development efforts > seem to be moving away from the character datatype: > > Accoring to <http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html>, JavaScript > lacks chars:
[...] > Ruby 1.8 used integers for chars (like C). Ruby 1.9 returns length 1 > strings from indexing strings. [...] > Python lacks chars: [...] Perl, Basic, Q, and Pure also lack characters. Haskell uses integers as characters and lists of integers as strings. -- So they play that [tune] on John Cowan their fascist banjos, eh? [email protected] --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
