OpenEuphoria

Re: Str-Kat

• Posted by Shawn Pringle <shawn.pringle at ??ail.com> May 30, 2008
• 709 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> Shawn Pringle wrote:
> > 
> > Kat,
> > 
> > A EUPHORIA string is a sequence that contains integer
> > values that each represent a character value.  EUPHORIA
> > has a string type as much as C does.
> > 
> > A string is not dealt seperately as a special type and
> > it doesn't need to be.
> > 
> > Unlike both BASIC and C though there are no special
> > string ops that concatonate, determine the length, and
> > copy.  In EUPHORIA you manipulate strings and arrays 
> > the same way because they are the same.  They are all 
> > sequences. And since sequence manipulation is strait 
> > forward so is string manipulation. I wouldn't want 
> > it to be any other way.
> 
> Really? Since when does EUPHORIA use only 8 bits for each CHAR in the SEQUENCE
> ? Since when can you load a 500mbyte STRING into EUPHORIA and not have the OS
> kill the application with "too much memory used" error (windoze allows each
> app to have  only 2 gigabytes)?
> 
> Kat,
> forgetting she wrote STRING-TOKENS lib in archives.

I didn't say 8 bits for each character.  Normally they are 7-bit but for
those who are doing non-English they could be 18 bit.  Frankly, I don't
give a damn.

Why would you want to load a 500 MB string into memory at once anyway?


Shawn