[swift-evolution] [Draft] Fix a typo in two String methods

[Saagar Jha]

Well, yes, but hardly anyone calls it a “char array” unless they’re trying to emphasize the fact that it’s not being used as a String.

Saagar Jha



> On Jul 24, 2016, at 15:58, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 24, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at ...> writes:
> >
> >
> >> In `String`, the methods `nulTerminatedUTF8` and
> >> nulTerminatedUTF8CString` have the word "null" misspelled
> >
> > Whoa. Isn't "Cstring" redundant with "null-terminated?"
> 
> One would hope so. A series of characters terminated by a zero byte.
> 
>   /// A contiguously stored null-terminated UTF-8 representation of
>   /// the string.
>   ///
>   /// This is a variation on nulTerminatedUTF8 that creates an array
>   /// of element type CChar for use with CString API's.
> 
> I think utf8String and utf8CString capture both meanings. I know they're
> a little redundant but they get the meaning across, use CString term of
> art, and are pithy compared to any alternatives (like "representation", etc)
>  
> They're arrays though, not strings.
> 
> -- E
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