Re: Internal Representation of Strings

"William Clodius" <wclodius@lost-alamos.pet> wrote in message
> Tony <tony@my.net> wrote:
>
>> What are some good ways/concepts of internal string representation?
>> Are/should string literals, fixed-length strings and dynamic-lenght
>> strings
>> handled differently? <snip>
>
> The "best" string representations depends on the nature of your language
> and its applications. The forms you describe are largely array based,
> and are typical of imperative languages. They have the advantage of a
> compact form, reducing memory usage, and ease of access to the
> components of the string. Such languages also rely on arrays and provide
> the infrastructure for manipulating arrays.


Yes, that's my current implementation.


> Functional languages will typically use a list of characters. This
> has greater flexibility in string construction and modification, and
> uses the primary data structure of such languages, so that most of
> the infrastructure of the language is readilly available.


OK. I will be working with curly-brace C/C++-like languages for the
forseeable future.


Tony

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.