What's next?
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:45 am
I following discussion thread in topic Feature #9: adding module Characters.
Among proposed changes were:
Among proposed changes were:
- Adding support for Greek and Cyrillic code pages - thank to facilities provided by module Characters
- http://forum.blackboxframework.org/view ... t=60#p1346
DGDanforth wrote:'CHAR' type should be abstracted to represent a UTF-8 'character' whose bit representation is dependent upon the actual code point. The SHORTCHAR type would then be deprecated (removed). The LEN of a string would then be the number of CHAR (not the number of bytes)
- http://forum.blackboxframework.org/view ... t=60#p1350 DGDanforth wrote:I think SIZE should be move to SYSTEM.SIZE indicating its dependence on the implementation.
- http://forum.blackboxframework.org/view ... t=60#p1350 DGDanforth wrote:An INTEGER can also be considered a 0-precision REAL when reals can be compressed. That also suggests that INTEGER and REAL could be combined to be NUMERIC. Conversion (compression or expansion) of NUMERIC values would be done automatically internally.