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authorJosh Holland <josh@inv.alid.pw>2020-12-15 18:41:50 +0000
committerVeikka Tuominen <git@vexu.eu>2020-12-17 19:01:13 +0200
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Improve documentation for string slices.
Closes #7454.
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@@ -2328,10 +2328,10 @@ const mem = std.mem;
const fmt = std.fmt;
test "using slices for strings" {
- // Zig has no concept of strings. String literals are const pointers to
- // arrays of u8, and by convention parameters that are "strings" are
- // expected to be UTF-8 encoded slices of u8.
- // Here we coerce [5]u8 to []const u8
+ // Zig has no concept of strings. String literals are const pointers
+ // to null-terminated arrays of u8, and by convention parameters
+ // that are "strings" are expected to be UTF-8 encoded slices of u8.
+ // Here we coerce *const [5:0]u8 and *const [6:0]u8 to []const u8
const hello: []const u8 = "hello";
const world: []const u8 = "世界";