On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:27:09PM +0300, wolverian wrote: : On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:31:53PM +0100, Juerd wrote: : > In fact, won't things be much easier if shift and pop workend on strings : > as well as on arrays? Now that we have multis, this should be easy to : > do. : : How about defining String is Array? I don't know if I would like that, : but it's an idea.
Unfortunately it'd have to be an Array of String, since most characters these days are not fixed width, even in UTF-16. There's no reason in principle we couldn't do that, but it'd be a lot of extra overhead for most strings, and you can always split to an array explicitly if you really need that. (Plus it would only encourage people coming from C to keep thinking in C.) That being said, we will have a way of taking an array of strings and treating it as a single string for pattern matching. But there's no guarantee that the array elements correspond to individual characters unless you made it that way yourself to begin with. Larry
