From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T09:09:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?


On Jun 27, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

> 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
>
>

I have an example, but I'm sure most would consider it "cheating".  
Let's say I need to write a Regexp engine... ;)