Re: The horror, the Unicode horror

2008-01-15 Thread Allison Randal
Simon Cozens wrote: I think this means we need a strings programming PDD. If this is a good idea, I'll write one, but I will need help. But really, really, I honestly think we need to start sorting this out early, before it becomes endemic and we get so stuck in the *s++ mindset it's ha

The horror, the Unicode horror

2008-01-15 Thread Simon Cozens
Hello all. This is a plea from the heart. Parrot was designed from the very beginning to support abstract interfaces to strings, to avoid the scary hairiness we had converting a Unicode-agnostic Perl 5.5 into a Unicode-aware 5.6. Believe me, it was not fun. So when I see stuff like th