OpenEuphoria

Re: "OF" in types, yet again...

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 04, 2004
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Someone wrote:
> 
> >sequence of sequence of integer s
> 
> I doubt i would use that exact line anywhere, but i would
> DEFINATELY use this:
> 
> sequence of char
> 
> which would limit ANY element in this sequence to
> a whole number between 0 and 255, or hex #00 to #FF.
> 
> I'd welcome this in a heartbeat, because from then on
> i'd be able to store text in single bytes with the same
> ease that i store anything else (usually) when using
> Euphoria.  Presently, for every character stored there
> are four bytes used.

Unfortunately, I would still want to store your 
chars in 4 bytes. The main reason I don't store
chars in one byte now is because I'd have to
create a new *internal* data type that would
make the interpreter much bigger, buggier,
slower, and harder to maintain.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com