Hello everyone,
I have mentioned a couple times we would start a discussion for deprecating
'single quotes as char lists' from the language.
The use of single quotes to specify something that looks like a string but
isn't really a string is often a source confusion. This is specially
frustrating given the expectation brought from other languages where double
and single quoted strings can be used almost interchangeably.
We already have a quite decent way of writing char lists, which is by using
sigils: ~c"foo". For new developers, printing a char list as a ~c"foo" will
likely give them better clues the type is not the same as "foo".
Of course we should not drive decisions based purely on the getting started
experience but I believe the sigil approach will be clearer for beginner
and advanced programmers alike.
The plan is not to deprecate them now but rather in the long term.
Something like this:
1. Elixir v1.4 will inspect 'abc' as ~c"abc"
2. Elixir v1.6 will effectively deprecate 'abc'
3. Elixir v2.0 "who knows when" will remove single-quotes
Thoughts?
*José Valim*
www.plataformatec.com.br
Skype: jv.ptec
Founder and Director of R&D
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