Re: (fully qualified) names of basic types
Mark Miller <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Kevin Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2009, at 22:54, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > >>> Char or Character? >> >> Does that represent a Unicode character, or a code unit? > > > If you ask me, it represents a Unicode scalar value. > > If you ask MarkM, it's either that or a UTF-16 code unit, depending on > which wins the popularity contest, and until we can tell we should > refuse to deal with non-BMP characters. Yes. Thanks for accurately summarizing my position. See <http://erights.org/data/common-syntax/baking-chars.html#only_bmp>. -- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM