From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T07:02:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/28/06, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> Charles O Nutter wrote:
> > The dual-purposing of String ops for both bytes
> > and chunks is very worrisome since it's bound to happen
> > that chunk operations get incorrectly used for byte
> > operations when sizeof(chunk) != sizeof(byte).
> I also have this concern.
>
> Here's radical idea.  Perhaps it is time to deprecate the str[*arg]
> operation in favor of str.char(*arg) and str.byte(*arg) like operations,
> making it explicit which operation is to be used.  It will break a lot
> of code, but then, changing the semantics of [] from byte oriented to
> character oriented operations will probably *silently* break a lot of
> code as well.  All things considered, I would prefer noisy breaking.
>
> Like I said, its a radical idea.

I can't say that I *like* it; it's *clean* to say str[0..5], but I
can't say it's a bad idea either.

Just radical.

-austin
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