Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Code to create a UC_UTF8_STRING from STRING_GENERAL

[Colin A. <col...@go...>]

On 21/04/2008, Eric Bezault <er...@go...> wrote:
>  In fact having it as creation procedure will allow us to avoid
>  having to create the intermediary object `l_bytes'.
>
>  After looking at class UC_STRING, I'm wondering whether we should
>  just adapt the routines `make_from_string' and `make_from_substring'
>  so that we can pass a STRING_GENERAL. Perhaps we will have to

We could do that, as we have the is_string_8 query to choose between
the current implementation and the STRING_32 one.

>  rename the version of `make_from_string' inherited from STRING.
>  Or add `make_from_string_general', `make_from_substring_general',
>  make `make_from_substring' obsolete (make it call
>  `make_from_substring_general') and modify `make_from_string'
>  to call `make_from_string_general'. I'm not sure what the best
>  naming convention is.

I don't think we need to rename anything.