On 5/30/16 5:51 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/30/2016 8:34 AM, Marc Schütz wrote:
In an ideal world, we'd also want to change the way `length` and
`opIndex` work,
Why? strings are arrays of code units. All the trouble comes from
erratically pretending otherwise.
That's not an argument. Objects are arrays of bytes, or tuples of their
fields, etc. The whole point of encapsulation is superimposing a more
structured view on top of the representation. Operating on open-heart
representation is risky, and strings are no exception. -- Andrei
