[MOO-Discuss] Re: [Lambdamoo-server] GammaMOO

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Luke-Jr wrote:
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> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:10 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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>>Luke-Jr wrote:
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>>>- -- 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.
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>>ord(STR) would be better, as it's what it's called in Pascal and Perl,
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> asc() is used in some languages, also.
>>and unlike asc() doesn't imply any particular coding system.
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> What does it do, then? asc() returns the INT based on the ASCII coding system. 
> There is another bifunc for Unicode and octet values.
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Actually, what would *really* make more sense would be to have ucs() or 
ord() return a list corresponding to the characters of the string. 
Similarly, chr() should be able to take an arbitrary number of integers.

I have some patches you might find useful at:

ftp://ftp.vas.nu/pub/vas/moo/moo-1.8.1-vas.tar.gz

	-hpa