OpenEuphoria

Strings, again

• Posted by A.C.Harper <a.c.harper at btinternet.com> Jun 05, 2004
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I know this topic has been done to death, but if I may resurrect it?

I would like to have a pre-defined type of 'string', which would be a single
sequence (not nested) of atoms with numeric value between 0 and 256, without a
final delimeter. All operations would be allowed as any other sequence.

The advantage would be that when coding a program which deals with a lot of
human readable text the use of the 'string' type would speed development and
catch bugs sooner. User defined procedures to output human readable text would be
easier to code.

I believe that this would be a low impact change to make, giving 'string'
devotees a good start in writing their own string based routines, but maintain
the purity of Euphoria sequences. This would be a logical extension to the
inputing of text already catered for in the permitted form < a = "text string" >

Bunjo