Re: CLisp case sensitivity

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:18:08 GMT

Adam Warner <usenet@consulting.net.nz> writes:

> I made a simple claim Barry: Since ANSI Common Lisp doesn't define
> the size of a character the length of an arbitrary string will be
> implementation specific. I am sure of this claim because no one has
> put their foot down and told implementors, for better or worse, that
> characters are a fixed size of n-bits or that characters must be
> handled as grapheme clusters of variable size.

Why should the size of characters have anything at all to do with the
length of strings? Strings are measured in characters so whether you
use 8 bits or 8 megs to represent each character should have nothing
to do with the value LENGTH returns when passed a string. In those
implementations that return some number greater than 1 for a
"one-character" string, what do they return for (char s 1) (char s 2)
and (char s 3)?

-Peter 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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