Yeah, that version is considerably more concise as well. My version is the "how you would fix the thing you were trying to do" version :)
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 3:17:54 PM UTC-5, Jacob Yates wrote: >> >> I know ^ is an exponent. The whole function is meant to xor strings the >> strings end up being the variables s and t >> > > By "xor the strings", I think you mean "xor the bytes"? Note that chr > and ord in Python only work for ASCII characters, so I guess you are only > interested in ASCII data? In that case, I would do: > > xorstrings(s::String, t::String) = String(s.data $ t.data) > > (requires Julia 0.5). You will have to think carefully about whether you > want to handle non-ASCII Unicode strings and what you want to do in that > case. (The above code will hande non-ASCII data by xor-ing their UTF-8 > representations. It's not clear whether this is what you want.) >
