On 27 September 2015 at 10:39, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then the default concrete type can be called String or Str, and that's > what people will use. Calling the abstract type String was confusing as > it could prompt people to write type-unstable fields believing that it > was the concrete one. >
So... it would be a good idea if I made an alias to a concrete type the way Gabor did? typealias String UTF8String Is there a reason to use ASCIIString instead of UTF8String? They are both concrete types, but UTF8 allows me to include greek characters. Cheers, Daniel.
