[julia-users] Re: readdir returns inconsistent types

[Simon Danisch]

Wait... Doesn't this mean, that the names could be parsed incorrectly?
Otherwise, I'd thought promoting would be the reasonable approach, which 
would lead to only using utf8.
 
Am Montag, 12. Januar 2015 19:59:12 UTC+1 schrieb samuel_a...@brown.edu:
>
> Why does readdir return a Union of two different string types instead of a 
> consistent one?
>
> julia> typeof(readdir("."))
> Array{Union(UTF8String,ASCIIString),1}
>
> I was expecting Array{UTF8String,1} or Array{ASCIIString,1}. It's not a 
> serious issue but still quite unexpected.
>
> Samuel
>