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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:54:16PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Pascal strings however *are* in fact a great idea for a tiringly long
> list for reasons -- better than C strings in every conceivable way bar
> one or two.
they're a great idea if they are handled transparently, as they (almost)
are in pascal. dealing with such constructs under C, where the standard
libraries are _not_ set up to deal with such things, sucks.
somestring[0] = strlen(&somestring[1]);
bleck.
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