[M3devel] Do we really want to truncate wide chars?

[Olaf Wagner]

On Thu, 23 May 2013 19:10:10 -0500
"Rodney M. Bates" <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop> wrote:

> Right now, the implementations of Text.GetChar and Text.SetChars that we got with
> cm3, silently truncate any of the requested characters whose value won't fit in
> the range of CHAR.  Do we really want this behavior?  Is there any existing code
> that depends on it?  I can't imagine a case where client code would want this.
> 
> I propose we change it to either give a checked runtime error or raise an
> explicitly declared exception, if the value won't fit in a CHAR.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'd vote for a runtime error.

Olaf
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