characters (was: 64 bit images)
Yoshiki Ohshima
Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Mon Apr 26 19:13:14 UTC 2004
Jecel,
> > In Squeak 5.0 or whatever, one approach we could go is to get rid
> > of all characters and to use strings with length = 1 (or smallest
> > meaningful length depending on the content) as today's characters.
>
> This was done in Self and the result was very nice, in my opinion. Being
> able to tell novice programmers that 'a' is a character is actually
> easier than trying to explain $a.
And the attribution rule can be much simpler in that way.
Self doesn't worry about the Unicode's composition char
and etc, which we eventually have to face.
-- Yoshiki
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