LEARN VOID / DATA & BEHAVIOR
Strings & Unicode
Use one text type throughout ordinary code.
const greeting = "Hello, "
const target = greeting + "世界"
value struct label:
text: string
struct message:
title: string = "untitled"
payload: label
func echo(const text: string) -> string:
return text
func entry(value: i32) -> i32:
var empty: string
var m = message(payload = label(text = target))
const snapshot = echo(m.payload.text)
var changed = snapshot
changed += "!"
if empty == "" and snapshot == "Hello, 世界" and changed != snapshot and m.title == "untitled":
return value + 1
return -100Write UTF-8 text directly
string represents UTF-8 text. Double-quoted literals can contain text such as 世界 directly, and + concatenates strings. An uninitialized string in a defaultable field or local begins as the empty string.
Keep text values independent
The example keeps a readonly snapshot, copies it into a mutable local and appends an exclamation mark. The snapshot remains unchanged. A string field can also provide a default value such as untitled.
Understand the boundary
String equality does not automatically normalize Unicode representations. The language also supports documented escape sequences. Do not assume every proposed text API or interpolation example is available; this guide demonstrates the implemented literal, concatenation and copy behavior.