From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T01:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: turning a string into array of ASCII bytes

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:14:43PM +0100, Stefan Scholl wrote:
> On 2003-11-26 14:39:45, David Garamond wrote:
> 
> > What is the shortest, most straightforward way (without temporary 
> > variables, etc)?
> 
> Do you really need an array? You can access the ASCII codes of every
> character in a string with [].

Currently, that's so.  However, I believe that such behavior is due to
be phased out in the future, in order to have subscripting be more consistent
(i.e. so that s[0] and s[0,1] return the same thing,  as is already true
of arrays).

-Mark