Re: [julia-users] Difference between ascii(foobar) and simply foobar?

2015-08-22 Thread Stefan Karpinski
I'm considering changing the type of string literals. That requires this change to make tests continue to pass. Whether that happens or not, this change makes the tests independent of the type of string literals, which is a good thing. On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Scott Jones

Re: [julia-users] Difference between ascii(foobar) and simply foobar?

2015-08-22 Thread Scott Jones
On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 9:47:56 AM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: I'm considering changing the type of string literals. That requires this change to make tests continue to pass. Whether that happens or not, this change makes the tests independent of the type of string literals,

[julia-users] Difference between ascii(foobar) and simply foobar?

2015-08-21 Thread Scott Jones
I noticed 3 lines had been changed in the test files I was working on, and it didn't make any sense to me. I thought that ascii(literalstring) where literal string only had ASCII characters, and was already ASCIIString type, would be a no-op, but somebody who I think should know made the change,