consider let io = IOBuffer() write(io,rand(10)) takebuf_array(io) end
IOBuffer() is not specific to strings at all. Best, Tamas On Sun, May 03 2015, Scott Jones <scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Because you can have binary strings and text strings... there is even a > special literal for binary strings... > b"\xffThis is a binary\x01\string" > "This is a \u307 text string" > > Calling it an IOBuffer makes it sound like it is specific to I/O, not just > strings (binary or text) that you might never do I/O on... > > On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 2:43:14 PM UTC-4, Kristoffer Carlsson wrote: >> >> Why should it be called StringBuffer when another common use of it is to >> write raw binary data?
