From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T22:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: A plan for another unicode string hack

On 15/06/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Patrick Hurley wrote:
>
> > I have to concur. If we are taking votes, I like the byte_ prefix:
> > byte_size, byte_length -- and these will remain important even within
> > pure ruby (e.g. when doing block based IO).
>
> I agree.

I don't agree. If you are doing block-based IO with a string, wouldn't
the best way be just to set its encoding to raw/unset? It would then
behave as a byte-based string. There's no need for a whole suite of
byte_-prefixed methods.

Paul.