On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:26:04PM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote:
> At 12:16 PM 12/10/2003 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > *{"Foo\0Bar\0Baz"}->{var};
> >or
> > *{"Foo\0Bar\0Baz\0var"};
> >
> [snip]
> >I think Dan was proposing the first and that's fine.
> >I think the second would be a mistake.
>
>
> Using a character that won't collide with HLL has a disadvantage [...]
I should clarify that I wasn't suggesting \0 itself was good, just the
principle that package names are stored as a single string and the names
of package contents don't include the package name.
I've no strong view about \0 vs other (presumably utf8) byte sequences.
Tim.
