@rfleury A charitable interpretation would be: For a lot of programs it's quite useful to have a common, expressive interface with basic and 'safe by default' utilities around strings.

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• URL: https://x.com/denis_baudinot/status/1726724764247749036
• Author: Denis Baudinot (@denis_baudinot)
• Posted: 2023-11-20 22:10:39

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@rfleury

A charitable interpretation would be: For a lot of programs it’s quite useful to have a common, expressive interface with basic and ‘safe by default’ utilities around strings.

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@denis_baudinot

Why does that have anything to do with the standard library?

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@rfleury

It doesn’t need to. It’s really more about expectations and culture than about language expression.

However, I don’t disagree with you. Generally this kind of thinking can be limiting and maybe is in this case. An interesting thing to think about!

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