caml-list - the Caml user's mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: JIT-compilation for OCaml?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:01:05 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.04.10101111050080.18041-100000@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5D5A14.8EC2F7AB@ozemail.com.au>

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, John Max Skaller wrote:

> > This view seems extreme to me.  Certainly the Java type system has faults --
> > lack of generics being one, lack of enumerated types another, and various
> > other points as well.  But surely Unicode is a useful de facto standard?
> 
> 	No. Unicode was abandoned years ago: there is an 'offical'
> ISO Standard: ISO-10646. There are 2^31 code points, unlike
> Unicode's 2^16, which is already barely adequate. ISO C and ISO C++
> support ISO-10646. Linux runs ISO-10646 (via UTF-8).

What are you calling 'Unicode' ?  For me it is the 'Unicode standard'
from the 'Unicode consortium' (http://www.unicode.org/), and it doesn't
seem like it was abandoned. Actually, it is in sync with ISO/IEC 10646
as for the character set.

See for instance:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/unicode_iso.html


-- 
  Alain Frisch



  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-09 17:18 Dave Berry
2001-01-11  7:00 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-11 10:01   ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2001-01-12  7:55     ` John Max Skaller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-11 12:45 Dave Berry
2001-01-12  8:23 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-09 17:09 Dave Berry
2001-01-11  6:38 ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-03 15:24 Jerry Jackson
2001-01-04 14:12 ` Alan Schmitt
2001-01-02 16:07 Markus Mottl
2001-01-02 18:16 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-01-02 19:30   ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 12:15     ` Alain Frisch
2001-01-04  8:37       ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-01-04  9:04         ` Alain Frisch
2001-01-03 13:23     ` Mattias Waldau
2001-01-03 14:25       ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 14:40       ` STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2001-01-03 15:51     ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-03 17:50       ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-05  0:30         ` Michael Hicks
2001-01-08  9:59           ` Xavier Leroy
2001-01-09  6:40         ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-03 17:49     ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-03 18:19       ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 18:38         ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-03 18:58           ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-03 19:06             ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-04 22:32               ` Jonathan Coupe
2001-01-07  0:16                 ` Chris Hecker
2001-01-05 12:52               ` Sven LUTHER
2001-01-05 20:08                 ` Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-01-09  7:14             ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-09  6:50         ` John Max Skaller
2001-01-05 12:39   ` Sven LUTHER
2001-01-05  5:48 ` Vitaly Lugovsky

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.GSO.4.04.10101111050080.18041-100000@clipper.ens.fr \
    --to=frisch@clipper.ens.fr \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    --cc=skaller@ozemail.com.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).