From: Todd Burch <promos@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T00:50:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Old K&R style has nothing related to Unicode support of the language.
> If you think it does, please elaborate.
> 
> It just reflects the history of the language.  When I started
> developing Ruby, old Sun CC compiler does not understand new style,
> and I wanted Ruby to run on that platform, which I was using then.
> 
> For your information, the next release (1.9) finally abandoned the old
> style.
> 
>               matz.

Thanks Matz.

I'm new to C programming, but not new to programming.  Therefore, my 
assumption (yes, assumption) was that using whatever compiler swithes 
were necessary to accept the old-style syntax would obviate the 
opportunity to bring in "modern" libraries with unicode support, and/or 
prohibit those aspects of the language that would enable the use of 
unicode features.

So, apparently, since they ("they" being unicode support and the 
syntax/compiler switches) are not related, and that's great.

By the way, as an aside, I really like the language you developed and 
have made available.  I primarily use Ruby with SketchUp (a 3D modeling 
program - http://www.sketchup.com) for extending the functionality of 
the product.  (SketchUp has a Ruby API)   I was looking at the source to 
see what it would take to implement a debugger than would work with Ruby 
while running under SketchUp.  I would like to step through expression 
evaluation as the script runs.

(Big aspirations for a new C programmer like myself!)

Todd
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