Re: [perl #30737] assuming IEEE?

2004-07-19 Thread Andrew E Switala
The platform-specific function can be autogenerated, if the build and runtime systems are the same, with the attached file. [It's not a patch because I'm clueless about the config system and have no idea where it would go.] --Andy >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-19 08:55:54 >>> # New Ticket Created

Re: Strings Manifesto

2004-05-02 Thread Andrew E Switala
>>> Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-01 18:23:02 >>> [Finishing this discussion on p6i, since it began here.] > Good point. However, the more general usage seems to have largely > fallen out of use (to the extent to which I'd forgotten about it until > now). For instance, the Java String c

Re: Bit ops on strings

2004-05-01 Thread Andrew E Switala
It's been said that what the "masses" think of as binary data is outside the concept of a string, and this lurker just don't see that. A binary string is string over a character set of size two, just like an ASCII string is a string over a character set of size 128. [Like character strings, so-ca