Hello everyone, I have mentioned a couple times we would start a discussion for deprecating 'single quotes as char lists' from the language.
The use of single quotes to specify something that looks like a string but isn't really a string is often a source confusion. This is specially frustrating given the expectation brought from other languages where double and single quoted strings can be used almost interchangeably. We already have a quite decent way of writing char lists, which is by using sigils: ~c"foo". For new developers, printing a char list as a ~c"foo" will likely give them better clues the type is not the same as "foo". Of course we should not drive decisions based purely on the getting started experience but I believe the sigil approach will be clearer for beginner and advanced programmers alike. The plan is not to deprecate them now but rather in the long term. Something like this: 1. Elixir v1.4 will inspect 'abc' as ~c"abc" 2. Elixir v1.6 will effectively deprecate 'abc' 3. Elixir v2.0 "who knows when" will remove single-quotes Thoughts? *José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4%2BX9q9SAZjj4otmbjXRBhJyvQk0r%3D8pERwtrFcAczGNPQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
