From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-26T12:01:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:37:45 +0900, "Charles O Nutter" <headius@headius.com> writes:
|I know you (matz) want to break as much as possible with the 2.0 release,
|but I still don't see the advantage of marrying the "byte array string" and
|"char string" types in the same class when separate types and behaviors
|would be more logical and break far less.

I still don't see how separate types and behaviors would be more
logical and break far less.  For example, if I want to check EXIF
conformance of a jpeg file, I do

  def self.exif_file? (filename)
    exif_header = "\xff\xd8\xff\xe1"
    magic = File.open(filename) {|f| f.read(4) }
    magic == exif_header
  end

I am not sure what you expect about separation, but I doubt separation
would make above code to "be more logical and break far less".

							matz.