Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines

At 11:04 PM 9/26/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>Well, let's go over here, then. I just submitted an RFC for internal string
>abstraction, which may or may not be the same thing as what you were just
>talking about.

Well, the impression I get from Larry is that he wants the internals to be 
character-formatting neutral. Scalars should be able to provide their 
contents in a number of different formats, but perl would usually not have 
One True Format internally. (Though how many True Formats there were might 
depend on the size of the platform--tiny ones might be all Unicode, or 
ASCII, or something)

I think the intention is that if data comes in in ASCII or EBCDIC or 
Unicode or Shift-JIS or binary or whatever then perl will keep it that way 
if it understands the format, and convert as needed by bits of the core.

					Dan

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