Re: Dylan 2016: Evolving Dylan
Tim Pritlove <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:49:05 +0200
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--===============0297522303== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_B625F8AB-4B74-417B-B5E6-6CE25A4AFCB7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 --Apple-Mail=_B625F8AB-4B74-417B-B5E6-6CE25A4AFCB7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 15.04.2014, at 23:37, Bruce Hoult <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that strings should be immutable. However I also believe that = you should have constant time random access to elements. Most programs = use so little string data (relative to current memory sizes) that I = can't see any reason not to use UCS4 (or even bigger) as the only = element type for strings (and certainly StringBuffer/Builder). >=20 I found this enlightening in that context: http://www.utf8everywhere.org Greetings Tim --Apple-Mail=_B625F8AB-4B74-417B-B5E6-6CE25A4AFCB7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlNQ5wEACgkQrTgr4n3inlqA8gCg5rcfN0RvoPe88G+Rzb66j4uS gK0An3oeXXYq7bw+FuTW3B192Sa9olkP =vDUE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_B625F8AB-4B74-417B-B5E6-6CE25A4AFCB7-- --===============0297522303== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers --===============0297522303==--