On Wednesday 30 March 2005 18:38, John Pearson wrote: >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:53:28AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote > >> On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:40, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:58, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >> Well, it's a matter of readability mostly. ?For now at least, >> >> when char is always 8 bytes... >> > >> >Wow, that's one huge char you have there ;) >> >> Yeah, I was gonna ask what language is so complex as to need an 8 >> byte char? >> >> Certainly not an earthly one I'd think ;) > >Might come in handy for Perl 7 Regular Expression syntax...
Humm, yes, perl. I'd forgotten that. Would an 8 byte char be enough in that case? >John. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/