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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