Improve documentation for string slices.

Closes #7454.
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Josh Holland 2020-12-15 18:41:50 +00:00 committed by Veikka Tuominen
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@ -2328,10 +2328,10 @@ const mem = std.mem;
const fmt = std.fmt;
test "using slices for strings" {
// Zig has no concept of strings. String literals are const pointers to
// arrays of u8, and by convention parameters that are "strings" are
// expected to be UTF-8 encoded slices of u8.
// Here we coerce [5]u8 to []const u8
// Zig has no concept of strings. String literals are const pointers
// to null-terminated arrays of u8, and by convention parameters
// that are "strings" are expected to be UTF-8 encoded slices of u8.
// Here we coerce *const [5:0]u8 and *const [6:0]u8 to []const u8
const hello: []const u8 = "hello";
const world: []const u8 = "世界";