Thanks, this simple remark just help me to understand what is meant by "string type"!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">dda</b> <<a href="mailto:headspin@gmail.com">
headspin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">String types – at least well-implemented ones – don't just store a
<br>string, but also encoding information. They are/should be geared<br>towards pain-free manipulation of text data, and by text I mean things<br>outside ASCII-land. Encodings-aware string manipulation functions<br>don't function on bytes, but on characters, a quite different notion.
<br>We don't have this in Erlang.<br><br>--<br>dda<br><br>On 1/10/07, Ludovic Coquelle <<a href="mailto:lcoquelle@gmail.com">lcoquelle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Anyway I just don't understand the real advantage of a string data type
<br>> (for me it only means that performance could be better),<br>> so I don't understand why people complain so much about that.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list
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