Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
"Ken Wesson" <kwesson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:30:09 -0500, Arne Vajh??j wrote:
On 04-02-2011 22:21, Ken Wesson wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:02:37 -0800, Mike Schilling wrote:
"Arne Vajh??j"<arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
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Which is a bit surprising since high code points were introduced when
.NET came around.
But they probably had a compatibility issue with p/Invoke and Win32
API, COM interop, C++ mixed mode etc. that all had to work with
existing Win32 model of 16 bit wchars.
Or, relentless micro-optimizers that they are, Microsoft wasn't
willing to bite off the size/performance issues.
Relentless micro-optimizers of what, their cashflow?
Micro optimization in the meaning it has among programmers.
Microsoft doesn't know beans about optimizing program code, as anyone
who's waited five mintues for Windows to start up and become fully
responsive can attest. :)
Optimization and micro-optimization are not synonyms.
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