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Re: "FastPackedString" considered harmful: msg#00110

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Subject: Re: "FastPackedString" considered harmful

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

> I agree with Don about the current name. If FastPackString is confusing
> because it isn't a string, doesn't ByteString suffers from the same
> problem?
>

I think more accurately FPS is confusing because most people assume string
= string of characters, whereas FPS is a string of bytes?

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