From 669ff690fda44b83abf5c064788dc4fa2beb5c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cantu <me@kevincantu.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:12:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] (core::str) make len an alias for len_bytes

---
 src/libcore/str.rs | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libcore/str.rs b/src/libcore/str.rs
index de8ba2f28b6..053ed94f559 100644
--- a/src/libcore/str.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/str.rs
@@ -1074,10 +1074,8 @@ pure fn len_bytes(s: str) -> uint unsafe {
 // Function: len
 //
 // String length or size in characters.
-// (Synonym: len_chars)
-fn len(s: str) -> uint {
-    substr_len_chars(s, 0u, len_bytes(s))
-}
+// (Synonym: len_bytes)
+fn len(s: str) -> uint { len_bytes(s) }
 
 fn len_chars(s: str) -> uint {
     substr_len_chars(s, 0u, len_bytes(s))