From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T02:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/27/06, Charles O Nutter <headius@headius.com> wrote:
> So yes, there's some alterior motive in my support for pure Unicode and
> ByteArray, but any path taken will be implementable in JRuby. However, I
> support those because I feel they simplify rather than complicate, and not
> because they might be easier to implement in Java.

IME, more classes complicates. Sometimes the complexity is necessary
because it is simpler than the alternative, but I don't believe that
this is the case here. As I said, most of my opposition is based on
(1) stupid statically typed languages and (2) an inability to tell
Ruby what type you want back from a method call (this is a good thing,
because it in part prevents #1 ;).

-austin
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