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Revision as of 07:54, 8 April 2009 (view source) KrisKowal (talk \| contribs) (Created a proposal for binary data.)		Revision as of 07:54, 8 April 2009 (view source) KrisKowal (talk \| contribs) mNo edit summary Newer edit →
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	~~= Proposal B =~~

	All platforms support two types for interacting with binary data: ByteArray and ByteString. The ByteArray type resembles the interface of Array in that it is mutable, extensible, and indexing will return number values for the byte in the given position, or undefined. The ByteString type resembles the interface of String in that it is immutable and indexing returns a ByteString of length 1. These types are exported by the 'binary' top-level module. (The idea of using these particular two types and their respective names originated with Jason Orendorff in the [http://groups.google.com/group/serverjs/msg/89808c05d46b92d0 Binary API Brouhaha] discussion.)		All platforms support two types for interacting with binary data: ByteArray and ByteString. The ByteArray type resembles the interface of Array in that it is mutable, extensible, and indexing will return number values for the byte in the given position, or undefined. The ByteString type resembles the interface of String in that it is immutable and indexing returns a ByteString of length 1. These types are exported by the 'binary' top-level module. (The idea of using these particular two types and their respective names originated with Jason Orendorff in the [http://groups.google.com/group/serverjs/msg/89808c05d46b92d0 Binary API Brouhaha] discussion.)