From: Tim Bray <tbray@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T08:59:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On Jun 27, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>> 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.

Point granted, but I bet the Win32 stuff assumes 8-bit "characters"  
and thus fixed offsets.  -Tim