characters (was: 64 bit images)

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Mon Apr 26 14:03:33 UTC 2004


On Monday 26 April 2004 05:22, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   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.

-- Jecel



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