Questions about Exceptions & Re: What Unicode means to us

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
Larry Wall wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:16:48PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : If it's that handy then someone can write a library routine. This : feels very much to be in the same category as running a : speech-to-text algorithm if you send WAV data to a text filehandle. Well, you can write

Re: Functions for embedders to override

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:45:43AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : I would assume (hope) that these tables would not be allowed to change : once Parrot started using them. It seems like an extremely dangerous : thing to have two calls to read() be performed by different functions, : after

Re: What Unicode means to us

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
Aaron, I happen to agree with Dan about the unwieldiness of replacing characters with their full names during character translation, but your idea of using Unicode equivalents seems more palatable. I'm going to ignore the issue of how this method of handling errors fits into the scheme o

Re: The encoding API

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
After my discussion, I've included an annotated copy of the functions, where I've added my comments after each function. So, assuming (hah!) that I correctly understood everything in the draft, It seems that I have several general concerns: 1. Why are lists of bits or bytes that are being inter

Re: Functions for embedders to override

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Stone
Matt Fowles wrote: Dan~ On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:22:18 -0400, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 12:04 PM -0400 8/9/04, Dan Sugalski wrote: Since we're running into Ponie issues with this, which means we'll run into Apache issues as well as any number of other systems When Parrot's