Re:String types are fine. How about your code?
by chrismorgan on Thursday November 28, 2013 @08:04AM
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String typing, or stringly typed interfaces (parody of strong typing) is a phrase in common use.
HTTP is a good example of something normally using string typing; most web servers treat headers, for example, as text, rather than as data, and so you end up with a lot of invalid stuff because of misunderstandings about what the values actually are or how they should be interpreted or written.
That's a trap that I'm dodging in rust-http; in there, (known) headers are data, serialised to text only for transmission, not text. (I'll freely admit, however, that this is an approach I would never take in Python; I'm confident it would lead to more errors than the alternative.)
HTTP is a good example of something normally using string typing; most web servers treat headers, for example, as text, rather than as data, and so you end up with a lot of invalid stuff because of misunderstandings about what the values actually are or how they should be interpreted or written.
That's a trap that I'm dodging in rust-http; in there, (known) headers are data, serialised to text only for transmission, not text. (I'll freely admit, however, that this is an approach I would never take in Python; I'm confident it would lead to more errors than the alternative.)