Re: [Fwd: [ROOT] CINT doesnt support 8 bits

From: Juergen Hannappel (hannappe@physik.uni-bonn.de)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 18:30:18 MET


Masaharu Goto <MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> Cint supports Japanese multi-byte characters. For doing so, 
> other 8bit characters are sacrificed. I'll introduce a feature
> to support 8bit character comments (by disabling multi-byte character
> support) in cint5.14.73.  It will be achieved by -m option
> to cint or '.lang EUR' command.
> 
> Thank you
> Masaharu Goto
> 

Won't this leas to script incompatibilities, i.e. scripts written with
multi-byte comments cannot be combined with script written with 8bit
comments? Such an incompatibility should be avoided if possible!

I think the *best* way would be to encourage users to use neither 8bit
nor multi-byte comments but plain english, because this also increases
the usability of scripts because the possibe user base is bigger.
How many new collaboration members had to try to understand old code
with comments n a language they did not understand because at the time
of writing no one thought about poeple with different language skills?

At least the interpreter should choke on different languages in the
comments. btw, what does the C++ standard say on non-7bit characters
in source codes?


Greetings,
	Juergen

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