Re: [MacPerl] IDEA: Cool (IMO) addition to MacPerl

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 15:00 -0700 7/17/98, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>A cute idea, but
>
> - It seems to be of limited usefulness.
> - It would not be portable.
> - It would work against our MacPerl/Coreperl convergence goals.
> - THEY could strike back with paired Unicode characters eventually.
>
>So I won't do it, but you are, of course, perfectly capable & entitled to
>implement this idea in your own version.

MacPerl *already* supports the use of 8-bit characters in scripts.  I
recall having a small battle with Chris about the use of these in the
MacPerl book.  We compromised with the <"Funny Characters" vs. Octal
Notation> section, found on page 143.

Chris is still opting for cuteness and convenience; I'm still arguing
for portability.  (TMTOWTDI :-)

-r

P.S.  (Mac)JPerl uses 8-bit bytes AND byte pairs, as I understand it,
      to handle Japanese characters.  No portability, but very handy...

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