On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 10:37 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 2:29 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:16 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
A null-terminated array of char is a petri dish. A proper string type is more like a disinfectant.
Hrrmpt.... maybe (in theory), but I can say that never seen it really work in practice -- bwk in Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language describes much of the practical realities of this sort of choice:

I think language designers since Pascal have learned from Pascal's mistake there.

Supposedly even Borland's TurboPascal had better strings than vanilla Pascal.

That's true. You could do things in Turbo Pascal you couldn't do in standard Pascals. It was close enough to C that a lot of system level code was written in it. A bit verbose, but serviceable.

Warner