From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-14T10:48:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 17875-17964

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 17875-17964"
    on 02/08/13, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

|>    * str[n] returns strings whose length is 1.
|
|Won't this cause additional allocations?

Yes.  Parhaps the string body can be shared.

|>    * Notation '?A' is obsoleted.
|
|a) What would I use instead of ?A, then?

"A"

|b) What issues are there with keeping the ?A notation and instead allowing
|?[utf-8 character here] notation?

?[utf-8 character here] still works.

|c) How can I write my code so that it is compatible both with Ruby 1.6 and
|with the Ruby M17N framework?

Use ?A.  It will not be removed, just declared obsoleted.

|>    * Encoding conversion framework for strings is introduced.
|>    * Encoding conversion framework for IO is introduced.
|
|Can you elaborate on this?

No, we can't.  Since I don't have concrete idea yet.

							matz.