<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Yeah, and…</div><div><br></div><div><div>1> erl_scan:string("\"abc\"").</div><div>{ok,[{string,1,"abc"}],1}</div></div><div><br></div><div>...so an uneducated user might be forgiven for thinking that there *are* in fact strings in Erlang. :)</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><div><div>On 21 Jan 2013, at 21:30, Steve Davis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Joe Armstrong <<a href="mailto:erlang@gmail.com">erlang@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Steve Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven.charles.davis@gmail.com" target="_blank">steven.charles.davis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
The following appears to encode lists of integers as strings (?!?):<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No no no - Erlang doesn't have strings - there are no strings in Erlang</div><div>(repeat this 100 times).</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed, but the documentation says byte 107 means:</div><div><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">8 External Term Format</h1></div><div><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><a name="id86237">8.14 STRING_EXT</a></h3><div><br></div><div>So please forgive the "inaccuracy" :-)</div><div><br></div><div>br,</div><div>/s</div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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