Comment by Dylan16807

> With regards to what rust team is admitting or not...

That wasn't an accusation. They admit things just fine. It was a hypothetical about using it as the main string type.

> and certainly are not proposing it as a general type.

1. Python's hack isn't used in file formats or transmissions either, as far as I know. It's also internal-only.

2. What they propose it for has zero relevance to my argument. It's merely proof that a hack like this can be added to ordinary Unicode representations. Python's goofy string representation is not enabling its surrogate hack.