From: Izidor Jerebic <ij.rubylist@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T04:03:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?


On 28.6.2006, at 20:43, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> Think a little more about
> humane design and you'll see that two wholly separate classes  
> require a
> lot more than what you're assuming and would end up in programmers
> making even dumber assumptions than they do today, because they'd  
> think
> they're "protected" during IO because they're getting a String.  
> This is
> not a safe assumption. Ever.

True. That's why most solutions do not offer String IO, but only  
ByteArray. But for language with large part of usage being text  
processing, this brings lots of conversions into code, which as Matz  
said, makes it like Java. But it is the safe way. Just the way you  
like it - no automatic conversion :-)

But most of us would not like the language which makes you type all  
the conversions manually in code, even for single-line scripts. Which  
we would not have any more. Scripts would be at least two lines - one  
line for conversion code :-)

izidor