On 02/22/2011 04:32 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Generic types should never evolve in a breaking way.
The generic type String once was intended to hold entities of the
generic type char (=character), and char was meant to hold a complete
(maybe) printable thingy in an 8 bit encoding.
So this is definitely broken when the library functions enforce storing
multi-byte characters in an (alias of) String.
(I don't want to judge that this way to go is wrong, I only want to
state that it absolutely "evolves a generic type in a breaking way".
-Michael
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