From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5e54ec0ce937978 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: String literals and wide_string literals - how? Date: 23 May 2007 05:28:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1179923323.901506.302970@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> References: <1177063665.093083.241580@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.172.8.14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1179923324 20066 127.0.0.1 (23 May 2007 12:28:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:28:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.172.8.14; posting-account=R0BKUQwAAAAEH1zhMKQoEzkWfZJu3USj Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15888 Date: 2007-05-23T05:28:43-07:00 List-Id: > APL has string as array of char, and a lot of array features which > thus also provide string features. When I used it (some time ago) > those chars were only 'regular' ones; there was not then much interest > in >8b charsets (or really even >6b); don't know if that's changed. APL2 introduced a 31-bit character type over a decade ago. Other APL interpreters also support more than 256 characters. --- Brian