I think the only advantage of ASCIIString is that str[8:12] is performant, because you know the byte offset directly from the index. That's not true for UTF8String.
--Tim On Sunday, September 27, 2015 11:00:14 AM Daniel Carrera wrote: > 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.
