Le dimanche 27 septembre 2015 à 11:00 +0200, Daniel Carrera a écrit : > > 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 Since I'm not sure the name of the new string type is fully settled yet, I would continue using UTF8String for now. Changing is just a matter of a mass replacement anyway.
Regards > 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. > >
