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RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct
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Andrew Tropin |
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RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct |
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Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:18:59 +0400 |
On 2024-06-25 13:27, Maxime Devos wrote:
> >-Returns the number of characters in the given @var{string}.
> +Returns the number of bytes in the given @var{string}.
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> This is false. For example, (string-length "😀") is 1, whereas in all
> encodings I know of it is more than one byte. Also, R5RS says:
Maybe `the number of codepoints` will work here.
(string-length "👨🏭") ;; => 3
(string-length "é") ;; => 2
The number of characters here is 1 in both cases.
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>>procedure: string-length string
>>Returns the number of characters in the given string.
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> , not “return the number of bytes”. Without mentioning the encoding, the
> “number of bytes” would be ill-defined anyways.
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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
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- [PATCH 0/3] Documentation improvements, Andrew Tropin, 2024/06/25
- [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Andrew Tropin, 2024/06/25
- RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Maxime Devos, 2024/06/25
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Jean Abou Samra, 2024/06/26
- RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Maxime Devos, 2024/06/26
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Damien Mattei, 2024/06/26
- RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Andrew Tropin, 2024/06/28
- RE: [PATCH 1/3] Make string-length documentation more correct, Andrew Tropin, 2024/06/28
[PATCH 2/3] Change make-dynamic-state mentions to current-dynamic-state, Andrew Tropin, 2024/06/25
[PATCH 3/3] Fix spelling, Andrew Tropin, 2024/06/25