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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 19:42:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [nodejs] Re: Poll for v0.10 feature: Crypto default to 'binary'
 strings vs defaulting to buffers
From: Stewart Mckinney <lordma...@gmail.com>
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my vote is a), go for it

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:32 PM, mscdex <msc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 9, 6:21 pm, codepilot Account <codepi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, will this be the last nail in the coffin of
> 'binary'
> > encoding? At least as the default, I mean.
>
> As a default, I'd hope so.
>
> Last nail in the coffin totally though? I'd hope not. This particular
> discussion (eliminating this encoding altogether) has been had on the
> list here and on node's github issues almost ad nauseum, but I am
> still in favor of keeping it around (with a note discouraging its use
> in the docs) until Buffer's core capabilities are equivalent or nearly
> equivalent to those of strings (e.g. indexOf, lastIndexOf, etc).
>
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my vote is a), go for it<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2=
012 at 7:32 PM, mscdex <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:mscdex@gmail=
.com" target=3D"_blank">msc...@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquo=
te class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc so=
lid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=3D"im">On Oct 9, 6:21=A0pm, codepilot Account &lt;<a href=3D"mai=
lto:codepi...@gmail.com">codepi...@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Just out of curiosity, will this be the last nail in the coffin of &#3=
9;binary&#39;<br>
&gt; encoding? At least as the default, I mean.<br>
<br>
</div>As a default, I&#39;d hope so.<br>
<br>
Last nail in the coffin totally though? I&#39;d hope not. This particular<b=
r>
discussion (eliminating this encoding altogether) has been had on the<br>
list here and on node&#39;s github issues almost ad nauseum, but I am<br>
still in favor of keeping it around (with a note discouraging its use<br>
in the docs) until Buffer&#39;s core capabilities are equivalent or nearly<=
br>
equivalent to those of strings (e.g. indexOf, lastIndexOf, etc).<br>
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