[M3devel] This disgusting TEXT business

[Darko]

Those don't involve data stored in files, can be fixed with a  
recompile and are only an issue if you reveal the object  
implementation of TEXT.

On 24/12/2008, at 9:29 AM, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> Darko writes:
>> Besides breaking pickles (which isn't minor to those it affects) it
>> also has the effect of doubling the size of String16 arrays and any
>> wide strings or arrays. Why change the meaning of an existing type,
>> possibly breaking unknown software when we can just define another
>> type? It's not like another built-in type will cause anyone problems.
>
> stubgen, stablegen, ... :-)  no free lunch here, I'm afraid.
>
>>
>> On 24/12/2008, at 6:15 AM, Mika Nystrom wrote:
>>
>>> "Rodney M. Bates" writes:
>>> ...
>>>> It ought to cause minimal grief to just change WIDECHAR so it has a
>>>> big enough value range for all the Unicode values, probably 32 bits
>>>> in today's world.  Surely nobody has written any code that assumes
>>>> BITSIZE(WIDECHAR)=16. ;-)  Even if so, this shouldn't be a terribly
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Minor issue, I know, but... Pickles?
>>>
>>>   Mika