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

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Hilaire,

I just pushed changes to the CuisBook. They are separated in several 
commits. This will hopefully ease your review. The first commit has 
several unrelated minor tweaks where I thought a better wording was 
possible. The next 4 commits are changes to how Unicode is presented to 
the reader. Finally, I also pushed updated pdf and html.

Please take a look.

Thanks!


On 2/22/2023 6:05 PM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> 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.
> -- 
> GNU Dr. Geo
> http://drgeo.eu
> http://blog.drgeo.eu


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