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The term is immediately recognizable and less ambiguous as Binary. Binary can be ambiguous because people more often use the term to refer to executable binaries than they do byte slices. The term byte almost always shows up in any description I've casually given to what a Binary is.
I think we should consider renaming the
Binary
type toBytes
.In Solidity, their binary type uses the terms byte. https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.11/types.html#fixed-size-byte-arrays
In Vyper, the new Ethereum lang, their binary type is named Bytes. https://vyper-by-example.org/values/
The term is immediately recognizable and less ambiguous as Binary. Binary can be ambiguous because people more often use the term to refer to executable binaries than they do byte slices. The term byte almost always shows up in any description I've casually given to what a Binary is.
Thoughts @jonjove @sisuresh @paulbellamy @tomerweller ?
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