<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Duan <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:daniel@duan.org" target="_blank" class="">daniel@duan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">In the context of character sets, "nul" is the correct name for the 0 value. "null" only makes sense when we are talking about pointer-like references.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Oh, I see: "NUL-terminated" is a thing because "NUL" is the ASCII name. Still a little bizarre looking, though, especially if it's UTF8 rather than ASCII. I am less bothered by it now, thanks :)</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yeah. Using the ASCII abbreviation was intentional but after thinking about it for a second I still think it should be renamed. Swift methods are supposed to be spelled out in english. There’s no reason to use an abbreviation here.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Andy</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is my impression anyways.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Daniel Duan</div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Jul 23, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">World's shortest proposal:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Introduction</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In `String`, the methods `nulTerminatedUTF8` and `nulTerminatedUTF8CString` have the word "null" misspelled</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Motivation</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a typo</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Proposed solution</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fix the typo</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Impact on existing code</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Emit a fix-it for existing code</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Alternatives considered</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keep on spelling "nul" without the second "l"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Acknowledgments</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks to Andrew Trick for confirming that the existing spelling is bizarre</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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