Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

guerin@IRO.UMontreal.CA:
> Is there some reasons to use string0 over length attributed string ??


ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons) writes:
> Another minor benefit is the restriction on size. String0 has no
> restriction at all other than the user's memory.


While it is certainly true that the size of length-attributed strings is
constrained by the size of the length field, there is another dimension to
this problem.


The use of zero-terminated strings restricts the contents of strings. They
cannot include the zero byte. Length-attributed strings can contain
arbitrary data.
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                                                                      Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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