On 21 October 2014 11:52, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the difference, in your mind, between a byte string and a byte > vector or byte array?
The difference is provided support in the operations you can perform on them. The only issue I have is when I have to jump through hoops to apply standard string library functions to bytes types. This includes obtaining the original bytes from APIs such as argv or stdin as well as the traditional combining, slicing and replacing methods that are usually missing on array types. Oh, and literals. This is not a thing: public static final byte[] NONCE = "bitc-rocks".getBytes(); -- William Leslie Notice: Likely much of this email is, by the nature of copyright, covered under copyright law. You absolutely MAY reproduce any part of it in accordance with the copyright law of the nation you are reading this in. Any attempt to DENY YOU THOSE RIGHTS would be illegal without prior contractual agreement. _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
