> So the first question is: Where is this higher level? Isn't Parrot > responsible for providing that? The old string type did have the > relevant information at least. > > I think we can't say it's a Perl6 lib problem. HLL interoperability
Right. It's a Parrot lib problem. But it's not a ".c/.cpp" problem. > comes in here too. *If* there are some more advanced string levels above > Parrot strings, they have to play together too. > > So let's first concentrate on this issue. The rest is more or less > an implementation detail. Once we get levels 0 and 1 working, we can worry about bolting the levels 2 and 3 from ICU to a Parrot level API. (ICU goes much further than 2 or 3, incidentally: how about some Buddhist calendar?) -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
