Short String Literals
From cairo-lang docs:
"A short string is a string whose length is at most 31 characters, and therefore can fit into a single field element".
Nile integration
In Nile, contract call arguments (calldata) that are neither integers nor hexadecimals, are treated as short strings and converted automatically to the corresponding felt representation.
Because of this, you can run the following from the CLI:
nile deploy MyToken 'MyToken name' 'MyToken symbol' ...Which is equivalent to passing the felt representation directly like this:
nile deploy MyToken 0x4d79546f6b656e206e616d65 0x4d79546f6b656e2073796d626f6c ...|
If you want to pass the token name as a hex or an int, you need to provide the felt representation directly because these values are not interpreted as short strings. You can use the |