Well your stars are more golden than mine.
I meant that you were praising something filled with problems.
And I cringe about calling a byte a character.
I'm not sure what you mean?
Maybe you're disliking the fact that characters are elements of strings. But the Terminology you linked is consistent with that. And it's accurate. A character has always been an element of a string. No matter what it represents. "Character" doesn't imply semantics.
- substr: "First character is at offset zero."
- chop: "Chops off the last character of a string and returns the character chopped."
- ord: "Returns the numeric value of the first character of EXPR."
- regex dot: "Match any single character [...]"
- etc
- etc
- etc
This is not just a Perl thing either.
it's the best in having an axiomatic build up with clarifying the terminology first.
Yes, but that's not what we were discussing. We we discussing the quality of the terminology in question.
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