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I'm sorry, what? Golang didn't appropriate the term Rune in reference to Unicode. The term comes from Plan 9's UTF-8 handling library (libutf) which was written
by fao_ 8y ago
I'm sorry, what? Golang didn't appropriate the term Rune in reference to Unicode. The term comes from Plan 9's UTF-8 handling library (libutf) which was written by ken and pike, who invented UTF-8. Rob Pike went on to write Go, which was heavily influenced by Plan9 C.
rune.c:2: "The authors of this software are Rob Pike and Ken Thompson."
https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/src/lib9/utf/rune.c#L2 https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/src/lib9/utf/...
- jahewson 8y agoIn that case I wish Plan 9 had never appropriated the term "rune" :p