From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T17:55:41+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

Hi,

In message "Re: A plan for another unicode string hack"
    on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:08:41 +0900, "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> writes:

|I agree with Austin on this - the distinction is too vague. I'd leave
|length and size the same and make a size_in_bytes method.

On my latest prototype (not checked in anywhere), String#length and
String#size behave same, and there is String#buffer_size to return
size in bytes.  The method name might change in the future.

							matz.