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Re:TIL the assumption that string length does not change whe... by 3np on Monday November 22, 2021 @06:22AM (#29305218)
I’m really not an expert but is there anything particular with this one?

Looking here the answer looks like “0” for all contexts to me.

https://codepoints.net/U+2060

And well, I don’t think anyone’s arguing that a “length” function needs to be exposed by the standard library of any language (I saw that Swift does btw).

Besides from byte count it’s the only interpretation of “length” that I think makes sense for users (like I mentioned above, validating that a name has at least length 1, for example)

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Re:TIL the assumption that string length does not change whe... by JohnHaugeland on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:00PM (#29308625)
> And well, I don’t think anyone’s arguing that a “length” function needs to be exposed by the standard library of any language

that's literally the core premise of the original post

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Re:TIL the assumption that string length does not change whe... by 3np on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#29310862)
...is it?
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