[erlang-questions] What is the correct representation of text in erlang programs?

[Steve Davis]

On Apr 13, 4:39 pm, Steve Davis <steven.charles.davis@REDACTED>
wrote:
> So would it be fair to say that, as a general design principle for
> representing strings in erlang terms then a binary representation is
> far more preferable than a "list of integers"?
>

Additionally

1) do people tend to agree with Joe's guidance in that exchange
re:couchdb, and if so why isn't it plastered all over the tutorials?
3) Shouldn't the word "string" be banned from the debate about text in
erlang apart from as a reference to a specific foreign data type?
3) Are my questions too trite?