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Do not imply that str is sometimes null-terminated. #9462

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/libstd/str.rs
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Expand Up @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ assert_eq!(buf, ~"testing 123");

Rust's string type, `str`, is a sequence of unicode codepoints encoded as a
stream of UTF-8 bytes. All safely-created strings are guaranteed to be validly
encoded UTF-8 sequences. Additionally, strings are not guaranteed to be
null-terminated (the null byte is a valid unicode codepoint).
encoded UTF-8 sequences. Additionally, strings are not null-terminated
and can contain null codepoints.

The actual representation of strings have direct mappings to vectors:

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