Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

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


Drew Dean <ddean@robadome.com> wrote:
>There's also one great advantage of giving strings explicit lengths:
>0 is no longer a special value. One easy example of this
>is if you're printing bitmapped graphics to a dot-matrix printer --
>a zero byte means don't fire any pins in this column, not end of string!


True, but *character* strings should only contain valid
*characters*. The real moral of the story is that you should be using
a data representation appropriate to the data to be represented. :-)


If you want to deal with arrays of bytes, you should deal with
arrays of bytes. :-)


Jack Eifrig (eifrig@cs.jhu.edu) The Johns Hopkins University, C.S. Dept.
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