Am 11.01.2014 10:44, schrieb Stephen Hansen:
I mean, its not like the "bytes" type lacks knowledge of the subset of bytes that happen to be 7-bit ascii-compatible and can't perform text-ish operations on them--
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How is this not a practical recognition that yes, while bytes are byte streams and not text, a huge subset of bytes are text-y, and as long as we maintain the barrier between higher characters and implicit conversion therein, we're fine?
I don't see the difference here. There is a very real, practical need to interpolate bytes. This very real, practical need includes the very real recognition that converting 12345 to b'12345' is not something weird, unusual, and subject to the thorny issues of Encodings. It is not violating the doctrine of separation of powers between Text and Bytes.
This. Exactly. Thanks for putting it so nicely, Stephen. Georg