"FastPackedString" considered harmful

Philippa Cowderoy flippa at flippac.org
Thu Apr 20 11:22:25 EDT 2006


On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

> I agree with Don about the current name.  If FastPackString is confusing 
> because it isn't a string, doesn't ByteString suffers from the same 
> problem?
> 

I think more accurately FPS is confusing because most people assume string 
= string of characters, whereas FPS is a string of bytes?

-- 
flippa at flippac.org

Ivanova is always right. 
I will listen to Ivanova. 
I will not ignore Ivanova's recomendations. 
Ivanova is God. 
And, if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!


More information about the Libraries mailing list