On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Randy Presuhn wrote:
Reserving NUL as a special terminator is a C library-ism. I think
that
history has shown that the use of this kind of mechanism, rather than
explicitly tracking the string's length, was a mistake.
I used to think so too, but I don't any more; twenty years of doing
text processing has convinced me that C's null-terminated strings
simply cannot be improved on in a low-level programming language.
For more on the subject see http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/
2003/04/13/Strings -Tim
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