There's a good word that somehow, nobody used in the dialog above. The word is, "
cannonical."
'\101'
, and
'\x41'
, and
'A'
all are valid, source-code representations of a string that consists of the single letter, A; but
'A'
is the
canonical representation. That same word comes up often in conversations about software engineering when there's more than one
correct way of doing a thing, but one way is specially preferred for whatever reason. —
Ohm's Lawman 12 secs ago