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On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 17:31, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > At this point I suddenly don't even like the word "Type". But currently > I don't have a better one - words like "nature", "facet", "ability" or > "capability" all feel wrong somehow. > This reminds me of looks_like_a_number() which pops up all over the place. And I wonder if we even need to have a test for "looks like text", if we have tests for everything else then the only thing left is "text" (without getting into debates about whether the text is pure-octets, or unicode or whatever). cheers, YvesThread Previous | Thread Next