OpenEuphoria

Re: Wishlist

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jun 28, 2001
• 574 views

On 28 Jun 2001, at 15:33, daryl_vdb at HOTMAIL.COM wrote:


> >4-- Enhanced '?'
> >	If a sequence contains all ascii characters, output it as string.
> 
> It may slow down the ? statement if the interpreter always has to check 
> whether or not all the elements of a sequence are ASCII characters.

It would also break other languages. If you trim to English characters, then 
Igor and Red Knight and Norman can't use it. The upper ascii, which won't 
print in an english font, are valid printable chars in Spanish, Russian, and 
Japanese.
 
> >5-- Enhanced standard library(s), possibly built-in
> >	string functions
> >	regular expressions
> >	isAscii () etc.
> >	containers

If it's 8 bits, it's ascii for something or other. How about unicode?
 
Kat