[swift-evolution] SE-163: String Revision: Collection Conformance, C Interop, Transcoding

[Félix Cloutier]

During the proposal phase, we asked how this would handle fixed-length strings with an optional NUL terminator. For instance, in a C `struct Foo { char name[8]; };`, `name` stops at the first \0, or at the eighth byte, whichever comes first. IIRC, Ben said that it would be handled, but I'd like to have it clarified.

Is it correct to assume that a UnicodeEncoding is expected to return UnicodeParseResult.emptyInput when it sees a NUL character (thus stopping before the end of the buffer if necessary)? Is it also correct to assume that if you need this functionality, you'll be looking at code like this?

var result = ""
UnicodeEncoding.parseForward(bufferPointer) { result += $0 }

> Le 5 avr. 2017 à 11:39, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
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> The review of "SE-163: String Revision: Collection Conformance, C Interop, Transcoding" begins now and runs through next Tuesday, April 11th. The proposal is available here:
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