At 11:40 PM +0000 1/30/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:23:43PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>  We're adding the following:
>>
>>     INTVAL get_character(PMC *, INTVAL)
>>     INTVAL get_character(PMC *, KEY *, INTVAL)
>>
>>  to return the character at position INTVAL in the passed in PMC.
>
>are characters really INTVAL? I have this gut feeling that they ought to
>be UINTVAL. At least, that's my personal world view.

That lets us reserve the negative characters for error conditions. 31 
bits should be enough for a long time, even for Unicode.
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                                         Dan

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