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Re: Internal visibility
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Clinton Ebadi |
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Re: Internal visibility |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:24:15 -0400 |
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
>>>> Guile's string API is aiming not to be 8-bit-assuming, and I would
>>>> guess from the code above that the C++ string class is 8-bit-assuming.
>>> Sorry, I guess I don't understand. What _is_the assumption for
>>> representing strings in GUILE?
>>
>> Strings in Guile will eventually be sequences of Unicode code points (as
>> opposed to "bytes"), which can be represented in a variety of different
>> ways (UTF-8, UCS-4, etc.). How Guile represents strings and whether
>> this representation "changes dynamically" (as you suggested) should not
>> be exposed to the applications in order to leave as much freedom as
>> possible to Guile's implementation strategy.
>
> I think that a sequence of Unicode code points this is a somewhat
> limited view of how strings should be used. Among others, the
> implication is that programs cannot rely on being able to index a
> string in O(1) time (since the string might be UTF-x encoded).
>
> What do I use if I want to have guaranteed O(1) indexing -that is- if
> I want to manipulate strings of bytes?
>
> How would I read the contents of a binary file without jumping through
> encoding hoops?
Uniform byte vectors. If you're using C you can just read everything
into a normal C array and then use
scm_take_u8_vector()/scm_u8vector_elements().
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- Re: Internal visibility, (continued)
- Re: Internal visibility, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/06/09
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/10
- Re: Internal visibility, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/06/10
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/10
- Re: Internal visibility, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/06/11
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/11
- Re: Internal visibility, Mike Gran, 2008/06/12
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/23
- Re: Internal visibility, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/06/11
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/11
- Re: Internal visibility,
Clinton Ebadi <=
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/11
- Re: Internal visibility, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/06/14
- Re: Internal visibility, Ludovic Courtès, 2008/06/23
- Re: Internal visibility, Neil Jerram, 2008/06/11