[m-rev.] for review: add some unicode support to Mercury

[Ralph Becket]

Julien Fischer, Thursday,  6 July 2006:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Michael Day wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Perhaps it should be a `unicode' module (so it could be extended to
> > > support encodings besides utf-8)?
> >
> > On a completely unrelated note, since the standard library will continue
> > to expand, perhaps it would be worth introducing a std namespace, so that
> > the module would be called std.unicode? Then it will not clash with the
> > unicode module we use in Prince :)
> 
> The eventual intention is to put the standard library in a namespace
> called std.  I think there was a reason that we haven't done that yet
> but I don't remember what it was.

We are going to revamp the standard library... as soon as we get
constructor classes...
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