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. -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agr...@poofygoof.com "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!" -- virt