On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Bryan Jurish wrote: > morning all, > > On 2009-01-15 22:51:14, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > appears to > have written: >> As for the simple question of unsigned versus signed for >> any2string, I >> have never heard of using negative values for chars, so it makes >> perfect >> sense to me to use 0-255. That'll will give at least the full latin >> charset. > > OK. I guess I'll make unsigned values the default for [any2string] > then, postponing the issue of name change to [any2bytes] rsp. > [bytes2any] to a hypothetical future in which the "string" suffix > implies unicode or other non-byte-oriented representation.
Well, C considers a collection of 0-127 values a string. I think most programming languages would call an collection of 8-bit ASCII bytes a string. I think "string" makes more sense than "bytes" here. .hc > > > marmosets, > Bryan > > -- > Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more > bug." > [email protected] -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic > Entomology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
