[M3devel] UTF-8 TEXT

[Dragiša Durić]

glyph sounds better, I agree! :)

On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:20:41PM -0500, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
>> 
>> Text is highly general and easy to use.  Concatentations and substrings
>> are easy.  Semantics, to its clients, are value semantics, similar to INTEGER.
>> Random access by *character* number is easy and, hopefully, implemented
>> with efficiency at least better than O(n).
> 
> Does it have to be a *character* number we use to index a string?  I 
> don't know of any situations where that aspect is importnat enough 
> to force everyone to waste storage on it.
> 
> -- hendrik