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> In fairness, the moment you realize ASCII strings are a tiny subset of what a string can be, you also understand why strings are actually very complicated. O
by sellyme 6y ago
> In fairness, the moment you realize ASCII strings are a tiny subset of what a string can be, you also understand why strings are actually very complicated.
Oh absolutely, but it's a pretty reasonable expectation that any contemporary language should handle that complexity for you. The entire job of a language is to make the fundamental concepts easier to work with.
- jstanley 6y agoC very much does make the fundamental concepts easier to work with, it merely disagrees with you about exactly which concepts are fundamental :).
- rbanffy 6y agoSadly, strings are, at the same time, complicated enough to be left outside the fundamental concepts of a language, but far too useful to be left outside the fundamental concepts of a realistically viable language.