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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