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Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by Someone on Sunday March 05, 2017 @12:58PM (#13797310)
Or a string library?

It is a library of functions that manipulate objects of the language built-in String type, not a library that implements a string type from scratch.

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Re:A Cross-Platform String Library Written in Swift by coldtea on Sunday March 05, 2017 @01:08PM (#13797385)
That's still a string library. string.h doesn't implement any "string type" from scratch either.
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