Ah Python, you have spoiled me for all other languages

[Ned Batchelder]

On Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 9:01:29 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2015 10:33 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> > If only characters were represented as sequences UTF-16 code units in
> > ECMAScript implementations like JavaScript, there would not be a problem
> > beyond the BMP;
> 
> Are you being sarcastic?

IIUC, Thomas' point is that *characters* should be sequences of codepoints,
not that *strings* should be.

--Ned.