Larry Wall:
# For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
# abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings
# and arrays,
# I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of
# chunks, where each chunk is a sequence of integers of the same size or
Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
: > What I notice, though, is that the current code does not warn for
: > characters beyond 0x10, which is definitely a bug.
:
: Ahh, it's all coming back now... warning about such characters
: causes pain in the complementing tr///... have to look at this later.
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