On 06/01/2016 10:29 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 06/01/2016 06:25 AM, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 21:01:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The point is to operate on representation-independent entities
(Unicode code points) instead of low-level representation-specific
artifacts (code units).
_Both_ are low-level representation-specific artifacts.
Maybe this is a misunderstanding. Representation = how things are laid
out in memory. What does associating numbers with various Unicode
symbols have to do with representation? -- Andrei
As has been explained countless times already, code points are a non-1:1
internal representation of graphemes. Code points don't exist for their
own sake, their entire existence is purely as a way to encode graphemes.
Whether that technically qualifies as "memory representation" or not is
irrelevant: it's still a low-level implementation detail of text.
