On Apr 17, 2006, at 0:02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I think Dan was thinking that internally everything should be fixed
width,
and for practical reasons pick the smallest of 8 bit, UCS-16 and UCS-32
internally. Convert variable width to fixed width (losslessly) the
first time
you need to do anything to it, and leave it that way.
Not really. He had the model of not converting a string at all, based
on an example, where a string was just passed through parrot. I'd
prefer the fixed width encoding scheme.
leo
