String?
Hi 'string fans'!
As I know, a character is a byte that represents a human readable or
printable symbol. A character string (synonymous: string) is a series of
characters. i.e., a series of bytes representing human readable|printable
symbols (words, sentences,...).
Is it important to differentiate between a general byte series (#00 to #FF)
and a 'string'?
1) If there are 256 readable|printable symbols assigned to the
numbers #00 to #FF, then it's impossible do decide, if you have a
'string' or not!
2) If you declare at least one byte not to be a readable|printable
symbol, then you may declare any byte series of this type as a 'string' in
comparison to a generally byte series, which may contain any byte between
#00 and #FF. In C, i.e., #00 is assumed to be such a byte, and therefore
a byte series ending with the byte #00 is declared as such a type of
string (Null terminated string). This makes sense only for specially
written 'string handling routines' (stringcmp(), printf(),...), nothing
else.
3) For I know what I would like to read|write|print, Euphoria gives you the
opportunity to decide, what you would like to handle as a 'string' or not.
In practice I don't see any necessity to have a so called string type, it
makes no real sense. However, if you believe you need it, then use a
type function similar like that, what Nicholas Koceja has given as an
example.
Do you really think a sting type makes sense in Euphoria? I don't!
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