There's More Than One Way To Do It, and by "do it" we mean "refer to the programming language by name"pic.twitter.com/87y5BZ4Elw
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Okay, this one I don't see any problem with o.O
Small brain: a text string is just an array of bytes or Unicode characters; "hello world" has length 11 Starfield brain: a text string is not an array and has specialised string manipulation methods instead Galaxy brain: a text string is an array of length 1
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And, well, .elems sounds like a list method, I'd be probably freaked out if it suddenly started to tell me about graphemes/characters/whichever in a Unicode string.
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I actually think it's really good to draw a honking great dividing line between "strings" meaning Unicode text objects and "strings" meaning arrays of octets. Give them very distinct APIs and so on. Programming languages which confuse the two are broken IMO
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I'm kinda reminded of tuples in Python (the constructor is the comma, not the parens) and I guess P6 lists are taken one step further and everything is a / can be treated as a list, and this way an awkward (item1,) construct like the one item tuple seen in Py is avoided.
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