On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:53:07AM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
: According to Larry Wall:
: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:38:10PM -, 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 ar
According to Larry Wall:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:38:10PM -, 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 Unicod
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:38:10PM -, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
: Would this be a good time to ask for explanation for C being
: never Unicode, while C is always Unicode, thus leading to an
: inability to box a non-Unicode string?
As Rod said, "str" is just a way of declaring a byte buffer, for w
Chip Salzenberg wrote:
Would this be a good time to ask for explanation for C being
never Unicode, while C is always Unicode, thus leading to an
inability to box a non-Unicode string?
That's not quite it. C is a forced Unicode level of "Bytes", with
encoding "raw", which happens to not have any
Would this be a good time to ask for explanation for C being
never Unicode, while C is always Unicode, thus leading to an
inability to box a non-Unicode string?
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 subse
Larry Wall wrote:
You've more or less described the semantics available at the "use
bytes" level, which basically comes down to a pure OO approach where
the user has to be aware of all the types (to the extent that OO
doesn't hide that). It's one approach to polymorphism, but I think
it shortchang
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 05:07:49PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: I propose that we make a few decisions about strings in Perl. I've read
: all the synopses, several list threads on the topic, and a few web
: guides to Unicode. I've also thought a lot about how to cleanly define
: all the string related
It's been pointed out to me that A12 mentions:
Coercions to other classes can also be defined:
multi sub *coerce:as (Us $us, Them ::to) { to.transmogrify($us) }
Such coercions allow both explicit conversion:
$them = $us as Them;
as well as implicit conversions:
my Them $them = $us;
I read
