commit e93cb2254171f38317f97e685b79dec397f47bb7 (tree) parent e16997a66cd8eccc5d7bcb819355100b34ce5c44 Author: Josh Holland <josh@inv.alid.pw> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:41:50 +0000 Improve documentation for string slices. Closes #7454. Diffstat:
| M | doc/langref.html.in | | | 8 | ++++---- |
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/langref.html.in b/doc/langref.html.in @@ -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";