When buffers can be frozen and are otherwise fully API compatible to strings I'm okay with them as replacement. Fully compatible includes for them to turn into JSON and mongo BSON fully transparent like strings.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:39 AM, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 9:27:34 AM UTC-5, Axel Kittenberger wrote: >> >> I just read through the docs that say, buffer.toString( 'binary') might >> be going to removed. >> >> please don't. >> >> > That note has been in the docs for a long time and just from what I > remember hearing the last time it was brought up for discussion, it's not > going anywhere. One of the main advantages of the binary string encoding > was that you could perform any operation where strings are accepted (e.g. > execute regexp on it, use indexOf(), etc). However Buffer is starting to > adopt some of these same string methods, so the missing functionality is > becoming less and less of an issue. > > -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: > https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/e3fd0855-8a0c-4bd3-9d47-5279f9ac2fa2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/e3fd0855-8a0c-4bd3-9d47-5279f9ac2fa2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CABg07fvH84hpXxH%3DJgTsE8ArjOM3JqAhdN5r2Uve6wdxV1T2TQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
