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Article #1143Re: wchar_t as a basic type
From: Walter Bright
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:53
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:53
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In article <1992Dec9.103811.28262@alf.uib.no> yngvar@novaja.imr.no (Yngvar Foelling) writes: /Sorry about following up this so long afterwards. But here's a point that I /didn't see mentioned in the discussion. /wchar_t is the type of a wide character constant, i.e. L'x'. /Walter, you're a compiler writer. Would you like the idea of making the type /of a constant, defined in the language, a type from the library? It already is. L'x' is a wchar_t, which is defined in the library. /How would you handle the correct insertion of a string like this: /cout << L"Wide string constant"; The compiler "knows" about wchar_t, just like it does now for ANSI C. No, it is not as clean as I would like, but the L wart is the only one I've found so far.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pilchuck!fnx!nazgul!bright From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: wchar_t as a basic type Keywords: wchar_t Message-ID: <1534@nazgul.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 92 08:53:37 GMT References: <1992Nov10.092148.430@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov14.200111.14262@sophists.com> <1507@nazgul.UUCP> <1992Nov29.002658.16405@lucid.com> <1524@nazgul.UUCP> <1992Dec9.103811.28262@alf.uib.no> Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) Organization: Zortech, Seattle Lines: 12