On 01/23/2011 07:51 PM, David Bergman wrote:
On Jan 23, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
... elision by patrick... I think I disagree with this. A string is by definition a sequence of something -- a string of integers, a string of events, a string of characters. Encoding is not an intrinsic property of a string. Ok... it feels like you are changing the rules as we play, instead of admitting "defeat" ;-)
Or, did you indeed talk about *generic sequences* this whole time? If so, why the focus on encoding strategies for characters?
David, there are three related conversations (threads) going on. One about a particular set of utf encoded strings. One is about replacing std::string with a string specialized for utf-8, and the third, this one, is about a string type that is immutable. They keep leaking into each other a bit, since they're all about string. Patrick