Re: (fully qualified) names of basic types
David-Sarah Hopwood <david.hopwood-mRVxzIiVagSlV3Ge8JjJtnfLna9zW77MtUK59QYPAWc@public.gmane.org>
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Kevin Reid 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. Fair enough; then it should be 'Char', which captures the intended ambiguity (since Java, for example, calls UTF-16 code units 'char's). Char and Integer? -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ _______________________________________________ e-lang mailing list [email protected] http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang