[MOO-Discuss] Re: [Lambdamoo-server] GammaMOO
Status: Planning
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From: Luke-Jr <lu...@ya...> - 2004-04-01 07:01:42
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:10 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Luke-Jr wrote: > > - -- ASCII builtin functions: asc(STR) returns an integer value of the > > first character in a string. chr(INT) returns a string containing a > > single ASCII character specified by the input integer. > > ord(STR) would be better, as it's what it's called in Pascal and Perl, asc() is used in some languages, also. > and unlike asc() doesn't imply any particular coding system. What does it do, then? asc() returns the INT based on the ASCII coding syst= em.=20 There is another bifunc for Unicode and octet values. > ucs() would be more accurate, actually :^) The Unicode bifunc is called ucs4, though maybe I should drop the 4... > > Anyway, thanks for doing what I've considered doing for at least two > years. It finally reached the top of my priority list :) > LambdaMOO seems to be effectively dead, and it's time someone=20 > picked it up and moved it forward. Actually, Lambda is just not moving fast because: 1. The developers (some?) don't like using SF 2. A lot of the patches are poorly coded; I'm fixing some of them for=20 GammaMOO. =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAa75AZl/BHdU+lYMRAktSAJ4/BoExWsyZJriNVoKZhz5S5UoUaQCeMT99 4VNLgGZCy4oGRchiVg9Fdbk=3D =3DJRkM =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |