From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T05:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack


On Jun 14, 2006, at 9:17, Austin Ziegler wrote:

Yes, I undertstand. Making #size and #length return different values
is a mistake. Without referring to documentation, how would you know
which returns the number of characters and  which one returns the
number of bytes?

I cannot agree. "Length" (to me) unavoidably implies that it's the 
answer to the question "How LONG is it?" I expect the answer to be "n 
characters long."

"Size" is the answer to "How BIG is it?" as in "How much space does 
this thing take up?" and if it's a UTF-8 string, I expect an answer 
like "1 byte per character + one more byte per character not in the 
7-bit ASCII range"

I would never have to look up which is which. Obviously Austin's 
mileage varies.