[r6rs-discuss] perhaps i should be formal, but....

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Mar 15 17:21:06 2007

Alexander Kjeldaas scripsit:

> Wasn't the 16-bit java internal representation chosen before unicode
> exhausted the 0-0xffff range? (i.e. it was an unfortunate design
> decision)

It was decided then, but that doesn't necessarily make it unfortunate.
It's a choice, that's all. Java 1.4 finally added some scalar-value-level
operations.

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