In <20120408114313...@kylheku.com>, on 04/08/2012 at 07:14 PM, Kaz Kylheku <k...@kylheku.com> said:
>Null-terminated strings are infinitely better than the ridiculous >encapsulation of length + data. ROTF,LMAO! >For one thing, if s is a non-empty null terminated string then, >cdr(s) is also a string representing the rest of that string >without the first character, Are you really too clueless to differentiate between C and LISP? >Null terminated strings have simplified all kids of text >manipulation, lexical scanning, and data storage/communication >code resulting in immeasurable savings over the years. Yeah, especially code that needs to deal with lengths and nulls. It's great for buffer overruns too. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
