On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:07:22AM -0400, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > There are a number of shortcomings in the API, which I'd like to address > here, and propose improvments for.
Just to be sure people are keeping it in mind, I'll repost this from Larry: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer > abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings and arrays, > I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of > chunks, where each chunk is a sequence of integers of the same size or > representation, but different chunks can have different integer sizes > or representations. The abstract string interface must hide this from > any module that wishes to work at the abstract string level. In > particular, it must hide this from the regex engine, which works on > pure sequences in the abstract. Tim.
