Re: jao's string foo

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:23:08PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
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> Ok... all merged up.  Great work.  Thanks especially for the doc
> updates, simplifications to various code, invariant strengthening,
> test suite updates, and overall evident attention to detail in what is
> some pretty twisted code.
> 

thanks for your encouraging words. i must say that it is easy to make a
good job when, as in this case, one has an excellent code-base 
and a well-thought design to build upon.

> I had been thinking it might be necessary to, in the short term, just
> support iso8859-1 strings in Pika but, no, we're well within shooting
> range of a full Unicode string type.
> 

yeah, i do think so :) as a first step towards this goal, please take a
look at my new patch-12: i've added tests for non-native byte order
encoding conversions, and they all seem to pass :).

> Next stage plans coming up soon.

on the string foo side, i guess i should go on with our plan, its next
step being implementing the *_fw functions, shouldn't i?

> 
> Thanks,

nah, thanks to you, tom, for giving me the opportunity to participate in
such a great and enthralling project!

jao

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