On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:23:55AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:47, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > >>> Please have the length of strings upfront. > >>Length encoding isn't self-syncing, > >Better that than not being able to easily pass arbitrary data, which > >might include NULLs. > As parameters to programs that are going to use them in UNIX system > calls?
I want only one kind of string thankyouverymuch. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic I apologize if I offended you personally, I intended to do it professionally. -- Steve Champeon, on the nanog list