On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 2:44:51 PM UTC+1, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 6:59:19 AM UTC-5, K leo wrote: >> >> I want the array to be initialized with every element being "". Can't >> say about 0.3.4, but it definitely worked under 0.3.3. Are there any other >> easy ways for what I want? > > > If anything, this should be ones(UTF8String, n). Since * is the > string-concatenation operator, then and "" is the identity element for > concatenation, then one(UTF8String) should give "". >
This makes sense, but what was the original argument to choose * as string concatenation, and not, for instance, +, like in some other languages? ---david
