<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="">Well, yes, but hardly anyone calls it a “char array” unless they’re trying to emphasize the fact that it’s <i class="">not</i>&nbsp;being used as a String.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 24, 2016, at 15:58, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>wrote:<br class=""><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 class=""><br class="">&gt; On Jul 24, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt; Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution &lt;swift-evolution@...&gt; writes:<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt;&gt; In `String`, the methods `nulTerminatedUTF8` and<br class="">&gt;&gt; nulTerminatedUTF8CString` have the word "null" misspelled<br class="">&gt;<br class="">&gt; Whoa. Isn't "Cstring" redundant with "null-terminated?"<br class=""><br class=""></span>One would hope so. A series of characters terminated by a zero byte.<br class=""><br class="">&nbsp;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>/// A contiguously stored null-terminated UTF-8 representation of<br class="">&nbsp;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>/// the string.<br class="">&nbsp;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>///<br class="">&nbsp;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>/// This is a variation on nulTerminatedUTF8 that creates an array<br class="">&nbsp;<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>/// of element type CChar for use with CString API's.<br class=""><br class="">I think utf8String and utf8CString capture both meanings. I know they're<br class="">a little redundant but they get the meaning across, use CString term of<br class="">art, and are pithy compared to any alternatives (like "representation", etc)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""></font></span></blockquote><div class="">&nbsp;</div><div class="">They're arrays though, not strings.</div><div class=""><br class=""></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 class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class="">-- E<br class=""></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">swift-evolution mailing list</span><br style="font-family: SFUIText-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; 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