Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

andrew@cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn) writes:

      Pascal merely differs from C in two respects: i) it requires the length of
      strings/byte arrays to be fixed at compile time ii) there is no library of
      string functions based around the *convention* that the interesting bytes
      are the ones which come before the NUL. The limitation which Pascal
      suffers and C does not is the former.

I agree wrt Pascal, but this dumb restriction does not apply to all
languages which use length-attributed strings. The use of string0 in
the C library has left some of us with no alternative but to rewrite
chunks of the library, just so we can include all valid characters
(including NUL) in a character string.

Nick Haines nickh@harlequin.co.uk
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