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The last language I would take as an example for string is python. The disastrous handling of the transition python2 to python3 with UTF-8 string and the idios

• nudpiedo 8y ago
  In python you can concatenarme strings using the operator plus, using templates, the method join, putting them in buffers or streams and many other ways just using the main python builtin functions just to name a few (no std library yet!)... the support for slicing is also very good and compare strings has a cost O(1) due comparing IDs instead of their content every time (optimize thanks to immutably as property). Python 2 had several shortcomings, but not with strings I think. The transition to python 3 is more more a matter about a migration execution rather than a technical aspect related to strings (which I don’t find that terrible, especially given all facilities provided to make the migration easier to the new incompatible runtime).
  • adev_ 8y ago
    > The transition to python 3 is more more a matter about a migration execution rather than a technical aspect related to strings (which I don’t find that terrible, especially given all facilities provided to make the migration easier to the new incompatible runtime). That's political talk. In practice I never have seen a python library that do not blow up when migrated in Python 3 with a Unicode related error, because one of the dev was using python2 string as binary vector.