Re: Dylan 2016: Evolving Dylan

Tim Pritlove <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:49:05 +0200
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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

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