Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14489 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-10 Thread Darren Duncan
At 11:09 PM -0800 1/10/08, Larry Wall wrote: It's really already very much like you want it to be. Most Str objects do not in fact have any byte semantics. If you say "foo".bytes, that is shorthand for "foo".bytes(:nf, :enc). In other words, you have to tell it what units you want the bytes to

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14489 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-10 Thread Larry Wall
It's really already very much like you want it to be. Most Str objects do not in fact have any byte semantics. If you say "foo".bytes, that is shorthand for "foo".bytes(:nf, :enc). In other words, you have to tell it what units you want the bytes to be measured in. It just assumes utf-8 as a con

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14489 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-10 Thread Juerd Waalboer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis 2008-01-10 16:14 (-0800): > +(Note that C<.bytes> is not guaranteed to be well-defined when the encoding > +is unknown. (This message is a mess; in my defense, it's 5:30 AM here. I just had to respond, because I have the feeling Perl 6's unicode model is going exactly the

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14489 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-10 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 10 16:14:53 2008 New Revision: 14489 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarification requested by moritz++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.