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

[Saagar Jha]

Ahh…I agree in that case; something like `utf8Array` might be a better choice.
Saagar Jha



> On Jul 24, 2016, at 16:44, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Saagar Jha <saagarjha28 at gmail.com <mailto:saagarjha28 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I was woefully unclear with that last email. IMO, `utf8CString` is fine, since a CString really is a null-terminated array of CChars. But `utf8String` implies that the property is a String, which `nulTerminatedUTF8` is not (it's a `ContiguousArray<UTF8.CodeUnit>`).
> 
> Saagar Jha
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2016, at 15:58, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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