<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Saagar Jha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saagarjha28@gmail.com" target="_blank">saagarjha28@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Well, yes, but hardly anyone calls it a “char array” unless they’re trying to emphasize the fact that it’s <i>not</i> being used as a String.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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>`).</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 24, 2016, at 15:58, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution<span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>> On Jul 24, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@...> writes:<br>><br>><br>>> In `String`, the methods `nulTerminatedUTF8` and<br>>> nulTerminatedUTF8CString` have the word "null" misspelled<br>><br>> Whoa. Isn't "Cstring" redundant with "null-terminated?"<br><br></span>One would hope so. A series of characters terminated by a zero byte.<br><br> <span> </span>/// A contiguously stored null-terminated UTF-8 representation of<br> <span> </span>/// the string.<br> <span> </span>///<br> <span> </span>/// This is a variation on nulTerminatedUTF8 that creates an array<br> <span> </span>/// of element type CChar for use with CString API's.<br><br>I think utf8String and utf8CString capture both meanings. I know they're<br>a little redundant but they get the meaning across, use CString term of<br>art, and are pithy compared to any alternatives (like "representation", etc)<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div> </div><div>They're arrays though, not strings.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><font color="#888888">-- E<br></font></span><div><div><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>swift-evolution mailing list<br><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><span style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">swift-evolution mailing list</span><br style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" style="font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>