toString vs. toUtf8
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Mon Nov 19 22:05:46 PST 2007
Kris wrote:
> "Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message
> [snip]
>>> Don't know if that hurts your eyes less or not, but it seems more
>>> consistent with Tango's existing naming convention to me than toWString,
>>> etc.
>> Yeah I was thinking the same thing. It's certainly easier for me to read
>> than the other form.
>
>
> Bill: actually, toString, toStringW and toStringD are more consistent with
> themselves, and with Tango convention. Even toString, toString16 and
> toString32 are significantly more style-consistent than toWString and
> toWstring
How so?
toString returns a string.
toInt returns an int.
toFloat returns a float.
to??? returns a wstring.
Seems whatever goes in the ??? place should include the letters
"w-s-t-r-i-n-g" in that order.
--bb
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