12 Nov
2007
12 Nov
'07
9:07 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Martin Peach wrote:
In that other thread I mentioned that I've changed the name to A_BLOB from A_STRING because it's not really about strings. There's also the issue of the symbol "string" (now "blob") being reserved by my patch, which I think is not necessary so it's going to get changed next time I have time to comprehend what's involved.
As long as you support strings that have embedded nulls, there is no difference between a string and a blob. Given the number of languages that support embedded nulls, you could safely call a blob a string.
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