Chars / Str type

[shawn bright]

Thanks, i was the one in the IRC, asking these questions.
At least if these change in the future, i will only have to change them in
my classes,
any more instruction on this i would love to have.

shawn



On 7/16/07, Christopher Armstrong <radix at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> To continue this really boring discussion (which originally started on
> IRC), I have some more points.
>
> I think the choice of the name "Chars" was a mistake for the 0.9
> release of Storm. I assume the choice of name was based on a context
> of knowledge of the C "char*" type, or something. There are two big
> problems with this, though:
>
> * The english word "character" doesn't restrict itself to those things
> defined in ASCII
> * Databases commonly use "Char" and "Varchar" to refer to *unicode*
> data, or at least auto-en/decoded data. I realized how confusing this
> was when I was drafting a table of Storm properties to database-level
> types. I had to say "For CHAR and VARCHAR types, use Unicode(); for
> BYTEA and BINARY types, use Chars()".
>
> I think "Binary" would probably be a better name for this thing than
> "Chars", even though "Binary" is a totally meaningless word when it
> comes to anything other than 0s or 1s, but at least it doesn't have
> those two major flaws.
>
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