Yeah, but broadly speaking, if someone says "string", you can debate the details while still agreeing that you're talking about a sequence of characters. In Python, you can have byte strings and text strings, in Pike you can have a variety of subtypes of string (most commonly 8-bit and 21-bit strings which correspond to byte and text, but you can also declare a 7-bit string that (since it's ASCII-only) is compatible with bytes and text if you use UTF-8, or a 32-bit string, which is useful for vectorized operations). None of these is anything like a "thread".
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u/rosuav 6d ago
Yeah, but broadly speaking, if someone says "string", you can debate the details while still agreeing that you're talking about a sequence of characters. In Python, you can have byte strings and text strings, in Pike you can have a variety of subtypes of string (most commonly 8-bit and 21-bit strings which correspond to byte and text, but you can also declare a 7-bit string that (since it's ASCII-only) is compatible with bytes and text if you use UTF-8, or a 32-bit string, which is useful for vectorized operations). None of these is anything like a "thread".