From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: IBM 437 encoded String to UTF-16 Wide_String
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:58:59 +0100
Date: 2012-11-28T10:58:59+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1mefvxxar8vn3$.16pejjtgf8hhg.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 50b5dcd0$0$6581$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:43:52 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 28.11.12 09:52, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> No. IMO the most convenient way would be to fix the language in order to
>> have Wide_Wide_String'Class of which String, Wide_String, Wide_Wide_String,
>> UTF8_String etc were members.
>
> If there isn't anything special about {Wide_}Character,
> a Vector of Character might be an alternative,
No. When I mentioned Wide_Wide_String I meant an array of code points. The
logical view of *any* string type is array of code points. The only
difference between different string types is in the constraints put on the
code points. E.g. String has code points 0 to 255. IBM_437_String would
have a non-contiguous set of code points etc.
> though hated by haters of generics, I should think.
I don't see how generics are relevant here. All strings are arrays of code
points. They all belong to this class. No explicit conversions should be
needed between them.
> As a practical alternative, why not add a generalized
> std::valarray<type T = (<>)> to the language instead
> of fixing it?
No idea what this is supposed to mean.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 21:02 IBM 437 encoded String to UTF-16 Wide_String gautier_niouzes
2012-11-27 21:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-11-27 22:12 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-11-27 22:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-27 23:13 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-11-27 23:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2012-11-28 8:34 ` briot.emmanuel
2012-11-28 8:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-28 9:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-11-28 9:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-11-28 11:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-11-28 13:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-28 13:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-11-28 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-28 17:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-11-28 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-29 9:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-11-29 10:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-29 14:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-11-29 21:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-11-29 3:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-11-28 13:51 ` gautier_niouzes
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