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		dan-robertson on July 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wasm_of_OCaml Is «chaîne de caractères» what French programmers call strings? (That would surprise me much as English-speaking programmers calling them ‘strings of characters’ would)

dawnofdusk on July 25, 2023 [–]

Yeah it's the French word. You can always say just "chaîne" when it's unambiguous. Or you can just use the English word

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