On Thu Feb 3 04:36:35 EST 2011, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: > > The finished version will support strings backed by file storage > > string(2) doesn't go quite that far, but is used by the mailer upas > and perhaps other things to reduce the instances of arbitrarily low limits > and bounds exceeded.
unfortunately string has an clunky interface. s_to_c, etc. and it begets clunky hacks that assume implementation. but i don't think you can do much better with the interface in c. Rune*s don't work very well and they've essentially doubled the functions in the c library. i think you're better off with char*s and realloc. it's worth looking at the heavy machinery in sam and acme, though, and comparing against ed. - erik
