Talk:str

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"Abbreviation for string in many programming languages." I've seen it as part of longer abbreviations (e.g. substr for substring) but not alone. And a noun? The plural (deprecated template usage) strs seems dubious. Equinox ◑ 21:30, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Programmers often use str as a string identifier (like using n or i for an integer identifier), but that doesn't quite seem to match our def. And some (many?) dialects of BASIC, as well as Visual Basic, provide a function str/STR (or more properly str$/STR$) that accepts a number and returns a string version, but again, not quite what our def says. Honestly, I'm not sure what would match our def. Is the idea that many programming languages have str and string keywords or built-identifiers that are equivalent? Or that many programming languages have str keywords or built-identifiers that mean more or less "string", or that are intended to be read aloud as "string"? —Ruakh_TALK 23:42, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Cited just about as well as it can be. DAVilla 01:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I think one can well argue that the 1993, 2006, and 2009 cites justify a sense, but I don't think they quite justify the challenged sense. Only the 2009 cite is using a str that's in a programming language, and none of the cites is using str or str in a way that could be replaced with string or string (respectively), which means that is not so much an abbreviation of "string" as it is a term formed by abbreviating "string". (That is, its abbreviated nature is just etymological information.) —Ruakh_TALK 00:01, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Alright, I've tweaked the definition, and added {{rfdef}} to encourage further tweaking. (late signature: - -sche (discuss) 00:27, 12 August 2011 (UTC))

Stremmata

Obviously a minor usage that will only get less common with time, but source. — LlywelynII 12:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)