Re: OT: This Swift thing

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: OT: This Swift thing
Date	2014-06-04 00:42 -0400
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On 6/3/2014 10:21 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:

>> https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/StringsAndCharacters.html
>
> Yeah, I was looking at the same page. Note how, further down, a syntax
> is given for non-BMP character entities (the same as Python's), and
> then a bit more down the page, iteration over a string is defined,
> with a non-BMP character in the example string. That's a good start.
> However, keep going down... and you find that the length of a string
> is calculated by iteration, which is a bad sign. I don't see anything
> about indexing, which is the most important part.

I believe go uses utf-8 and the above might indicate that of swift.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: OT: This Swift thing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-04 00:42 -0400

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