Re: Str-Kat
Kat wrote:
> Ken, you gotta realise, there's been substancial resistance to actual strings
> in Eu. Sequences are great things, wonderful things. But most of the world is
> strings, like this sentence. Or this paragraph. And the world is a big place,
> there's a looooot of strings out there. And most people would rather fight
> having
> strings in Eu in any form, especially if i write about it, or write the code.
> Just ask CK or JBrown. And i just can't justify anything i say, well enough
> to get anything to change. If i had a code block that did all i believe should
> be done in Eu, i'd be ashamed to say so.
I understand your point Kat. These guys must be some kind of minimalists or
something, eh? 
What you need are allies, Kat. Instead of beating heads and walls (one of my
favorite pastimes btw) find out if others have the same need you do.
It would make a lot stronger case if you had others to champion the cause.
It is unfortunate, but people do resist ideas for lot's of human reasons
which have little to do with the ideas themselves.
Personally, I don't see a compelling case for strings in Euphoria because
I really like how sequences have been implemented (particularly with regard
to allocation/deallocation, no garbage collection or memory leaks.) They
provide a way to send and receive strings from foreign DLLs.
Now if you add strings, you open up a whole lot of potential memory issues
that Euphoria thankfully doesn't have. That isn't a show stopper in my
mind. I think strings can be handled well. C has the cleanest strings
(just a pointer and a null terminator) but it makes the programmer do all
the management tasks. VB has a slightly more complicated BSTRing type and
does the management for you, but it's a really slow implementation.
I wish you well Kat. Any champians out there? Anyone know how to spell
champian?
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