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On 2023-08-16 3:40 a.m., Felipe Gasper via perl5-porters wrote: > In all my years of writing Perl, and JS code to consume Perl APIs, the only truly vexing type problem I found was Perl’s inability to distinguish text from byte strings. > FWIW. > -FG I agree that this is very important. The Perl 5.36 update that let us finally distinguish booleans from numbers and text was a huge step forward. Thank you again to everyone who made that work. I feel that a similar kind of core enhancement to the booleans one that lets us thoroughly distinguish the intent of a string to be octets/raw versus characters would be extremely valuable and something that I could use. And this matter is orthogonal to the Perl::Types and Oshun proposals/discussions but having it would be a big support for both of them, and for my independent work on data interchange/serialization mechanisms/formats. -- Darren DuncanThread Previous | Thread Next