[Fwd: To use Oz in Vim]

[Christian Schulte]

Definitly both, C++ and Oz (remember Oz is the language, Mozart its
implementation). You will have to change data structure such as atoms
builtin to the engine (in C++) and also do some changes to the basic
routines written in Oz. 

The complexity of each change needed will be very low, however the true
challenge here is to find all places where an assumption is made on atoms
and strings being 8bit wide... Se conceptually easy and most likely quite
some work.

Christian

"Maarten van den Dungen" <maarten at shortcut.nl> wrote in message
news:<5.2.0.9.2.20030625113229.01bc5008 at shortcut.nl>...
> At 13:44 24-6-2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >There are 2 issues: (1) ability to write programs in unicode (record 
> >labels in Chinese anyone? :-) (2) ability to represent and process 
> >unicode data using appropriate datatypes and libraries.
> >
> >(1) is probably quite difficult to change, requiring changes and/or
> >    extensions throughout the engine... or maybe not, if we picked a
> >    UTF-8 internal representation. Feel free to investigate and
> >    submit patches.
> >
> >(2) is a recurring and very promising idea, but noone _ever_ picks up
> >    the challenge. Personally, I have no particular need for or
> >    interest in processing unicode data at this time. Someone who has
> >    this particular itch to scratch should go ahead and create an
> >    extension library that we could eventually add to the standard
> >    library.
> 
> At present I am only interested in the second option. It would be nice 
> to
> be able to use it from the OPI but I can use any editor.
> 
> But to implement version two, I am wondering how much work is 
> involved.
> Does he need to know anything about Mozart language itself, or just about 
> C++, of course some mozart functions and unicode? Is it just 
> C++conversion of
> atoms, bytestrings, lists, etc. or is much more involved even when you
> stick to utf-8? How long would such a project take for a reasonably 
> experienced programmer?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maarten
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