Oh look, another language (ceylon)

Bob Martin bob.martin at excite.com
Wed Nov 20 03:19:01 EST 2013


in 710625 20131119 091055 wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
>Le lundi 18 novembre 2013 14:31:33 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a =E9crit=A0:
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>> ...   choose one of the three bad choices:  ...
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>> * choose UTF-16 or UTF-8, and have O(n) primitive string operations (like=
>=20
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>> Haskell and, apparently, Ceylon);
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>> * or UTF-16 without support for the supplementary planes (which makes it=
>=20
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>> virtually UCS-2), like Javascript;
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>> * choose UTF-32, and use two or four times as much memory as needed.
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>Nothing can beat the coding schemes endorsed by Unicode.
>
>They are all working on the smallest possible entity
>level (Unicode Transformation *Units*) with a unique
>set of these entities.
>
>To not forget. 

Is that an egg-corn?  



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