Re: Vec vs Vecsmall

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 at 13:17:19 -0800, Ilya wrote:
> Sorry, I meant utf-8.  There should a way for Vec("utf-8 string") to
> break the string into unicode chars, *and* produce "integer
> codepoints" for these characters, *and* convert integer codepoints to
> characters.  *This* is why, IMO, we better use flags for conversion
> functions than proliferate (broken implementations, as the last one
> with s* prototype is?) of new and new functions.

The 's*' prototype for Str() conversion is something different. Do you prefer
"string context" and flags [ previous behaviour ] or decent handling of
multiple arguments, but impossibility of flags [ current ] ?

Besides that, flags are a bad thing when they provide deeper functionality
than simple variants [ like different algorithms, verbosity, etc. ]. Most
code should function properly by using default flags only, i.e no flags at all.

    Karim.

P.S: We're still lacking true printf() / sprintf() equivalents but it's yet
another question.

P.S2: There's still no way to convert integers from base B to base B'.
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