--- Florian Gro<florgro / gmail.com> wrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> > A character will be represented by a string that holds
> exactly one
> > character byte sequence.  A Python Way.
> 
> So
>
"foo"[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0]
> 
> would be "f"?

I guess kind of like: 7[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0] == 1

I would still rather see a separate class to represent
characters.  I thought Fixnums were nice since they are so
efficient.  They could also be easily extended to Bignum when
you need more from the encoding - an arbitrary sequence of
bytes could be put into a Bignum.  The main exception to that I
can think of is when you have an excess of zero bytes. 
"\000\000\000\000" and "\000" couldn't be distinguished when
you put them into an Integer.



		
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