From: Stefan Scholl <stesch@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T03:42:12+09:00
Subject: Re: turning a string into array of ASCII bytes

On 2003-11-26 17:16:56, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:14:43PM +0100, Stefan Scholl wrote:
>> 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).

Who wants to use such a language? I don't want to rewrite my code
every few months.

If these tiny little methods aren't stable enough to be mentioned in
an answer then I'm really wrong here. :-(