Feature #9650: String#size versus String#length

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

Hi guys !

A quick idea for the next major version :

String#size => bytes length
String#length => chars length

Could this be a good move or too much BC break ?

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

It would probably cause a lot of breakage.

More importantly, why would it be an improvement? What's wrong with using String#bytesize in the rare case where you actually want the byte length?

-1, #size is good enough.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Why size in bytes and length in chars, not vice versa?

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

Rejected. It's too confusing.

Matz.