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Consider renaming ByteString to IsomorphicString #1471

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annevk opened this issue Feb 14, 2025 · 1 comment
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Consider renaming ByteString to IsomorphicString #1471

annevk opened this issue Feb 14, 2025 · 1 comment

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annevk commented Feb 14, 2025

Context: w3ctag/design-principles#454 (comment).

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domenic commented Feb 14, 2025

I'm -0 on this. It's not immediately clear from the name what that means, whereas ByteString seems pretty clear: it's strings where each code point/code unit fits into a byte, to be used in contexts like HTTP where strings are always treated as having byte-sized code points/code units.

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