From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T07:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:drosihn@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:56 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?
> 
> 
> On 6/26/06, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's funny, maybe I'm just dumb but I can't think of a single 
> > *real-world* example where you'd want to access particular 
> characters 
> > of a string.
> 
> If that is the case, then why doesn't Ruby remove *all* 
> substring notation?

Because it would be a disaster.  You want real world examples?  Take a
look at any of the pure Ruby code in the Win32Utils examples where I
have to take slices out of character buffers and pack or unpack them
into the appropriate value.  I'm guessing this might apply to Ruby/DL as
well.

I'm sure there are *many* people using character access in "real world"
code.

Regards,

Dan


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