Of course, if you need Greek characters, then use UTF8String, I used ASCIIString just for filenames and atom types.
On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 11:00:17 AM UTC+2, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > On 27 September 2015 at 10:39, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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. > > >
