• Start Date: 2014-04-30
• RFC PR: rust-lang/rfcs#60
• Rust Issue: rust-lang/rust#14312

Summary

StrBuf should be renamed to String.

Motivation

Since StrBuf is so common, it would benefit from a more traditional name.

Drawbacks

It may be that StrBuf is a better name because it mirrors Java StringBuilder or C# StringBuffer. It may also be that String is confusing because of its similarity to &str.

Detailed design

Rename StrBuf to String.

Alternatives

The impact of not doing this would be that StrBuf would remain StrBuf.

Unresolved questions

None.