From: seasidebook <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] UTF8String Date: 9 March 2022 at 21:03:37 CET To: Pharo Development List <[email protected]>
Thanks Sven! This is nice to see such experiment. I really think that strings should be immutable :). S > On 9 Mar 2022, at 20:49, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently revised some code that I wrote in 2019 and prepared it for > publication. > > UTF8String is a proof of concept / prototype alternative String > implementation for Pharo using a variable length UTF8 encoded internal > representation. > > There is a writeup with more details in the README on GitHub: > > https://github.com/svenvc/UTF8String > > The public methods are commented and there are some basic unit tests. > > Just like the experiment of a SubString class that is just a [from,to] pair > on an existing (readonly) String (which I believe someone once did, but I > can't remember the details), this is another idea that might maybe one day be > useful. > > Sven
