[Cuis-dev] Some questions on The Cuis Book & other questions

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Hi Juan,

The book only briefly presents the UnicodeString, so a whole dedicated 
section or chapter to Unicode will be easier to write for you.

I  indexed the paragraphes I wrote about Unicode, so you can have quick 
look:

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Indexes.html#Indexes_cp_letter-U

Best

Hilaire

Le 22/02/2023 à 20:10, Juan Vuletich a écrit :
> An important note is that we can make UnicodeString modifiable via 
> #at:put: if we want. In most systems Unicode strings can not be 
> modified. But in Cuis we can compute and store the new 'bytes', nil 
> 'hash' and we are done. On one hand, the system works well with 
> immutable strings. It is not really needed. On the other hand, making 
> them modifiable improves compatibility with older code and tutorials, 
> and other dialects. It is also a good example of Smalltalk "magic".
>
> Hilaire, after we make our minds wrt immutable or mutable 
> UnicodeStrings, I'd like to rewrite those sections on the book. In 
> last year's Smalltalks conference at Buenos Aires, I presented a short 
> paper on Unicode in Cuis: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=c93fukpVINA . 
> The main point I make is that most programmers usually don't need to 
> know or care about the encoding used for Strings. They should only 
> care about their behavior. So, I'd like to rewrite those parts in the 
> same spirit.

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