From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-30T12:33:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Subrange of String subclass => invalid object

Hi,

In message "Re: Subrange of String subclass => invalid object"
    on 02/01/30, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:
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|On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
|> The point is if I provide any Char class, arbitrary half of the world
|> will complain.  As long as the least functionality can be accomplished
|> by code point numbers (see [ruby-talk:32744]), I think it's OK to
|> leave Char class to users.
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|It would seem to me that a Charset class would be more useful, and would
|make many less small objects; i also say that in the perspective of
|backward compatibility: the current model is that a String holds integers,
|not characters. (whether those integers should represent string bytes, or
|string characters, is separately debatable)

I don't think I got your point.  A Charset class is userful than what?

							matz.