[PD-dev] Fwd: PD Strings

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Martin Peach wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> As long as you support strings that have embedded nulls, there is no 
>> difference between a string and a blob. Given the number of languages that 
>> support embedded nulls, you could safely call a blob a string.
>
> Yes they support anything at all that will fit into the available RAM, that's 
> why "string" is too restrictive a term for it, so I changed the name to 
> "blob", and now "Blob's your uncle"...

The whole point of my argument is that you could have kept the name String 
like they do in Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl an more. You don't need to inspire 
yourself from MySQL, for example.

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