Re: Ada and Unicode

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 03/04/2022 à 21:04, Thomas a écrit :
>> They are not so different. For example, you may read the first line of a
>> file in a string, then discover that it starts with a BOM, and thus
>> decide it is UTF-8.
> 
> could you give me an example of sth that you can do yet, and you could
> not do if UTF_8_String was private, please?
> (to discover that it starts with a BOM, you must look at it.)
Just what I said above, since a BOM is not a valid UTF-8 (otherwise, it 
could not be recognized).

>>
>> BTW, the very first version of this AI had different types, but the ARG
>> felt that it would just complicate the interface for the sake of abusive
>> "purity".
> 
> could you explain "abusive purity" please?
> 
It was felt that in practice, being too strict in separating the types 
would make things more difficult, without any practical gain. This has 
been discussed - you may not agree with the outcome, but it was not made 
out of pure lazyness

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