According to Larry Wall:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:38:10PM -0000, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> : And might I also ask why in Perl 6 (if not Parrot) there seems to be
> : no type support for strings with known encodings which are not subsets
> : of Unicode?
>
> Well, because the main point of Unicode is that there *are* no encodings
> that cannot be considered subsets of Unicode.
Certainly the Unicode standard makes such a claim about itself. There
are people who remain unpersuaded by Unicode's advertising. I conclude
that they will find Perl 6 somewhat disappointing.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Open Source is not an excuse to write fun code
then leave the actual work to others.
