[erlang-questions] unexpected result of term_to_binary

[Joe Armstrong]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> Yeah, and…
>
> 1> erl_scan:string("\"abc\"").
> {ok,[{string,1,"abc"}],1}
>
> ...so an uneducated user might be forgiven for thinking that there *are*
> in fact strings in Erlang. :)
>

Right - I guess it should be {ok,[{string_literal,1,[65,66,67]}]}
which would be even more confusing.



>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>
> On 21 Jan 2013, at 21:30, Steve Davis wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
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>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Steve Davis <
> steven.charles.davis@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> The following appears to encode lists of integers as strings (?!?):
>>
>>
> No no no  - Erlang doesn't have strings - there are no strings in Erlang
> (repeat this 100 times).
>
>
> Indeed, but the documentation says byte 107 means:
> 8 External Term Format
> 8.14  STRING_EXT
>
> So please forgive the "inaccuracy" :-)
>
> br,
> /s
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