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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: character array initialization
Message-ID: <523@taumet.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 01:27:32 GMT
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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petergo@microsoft.UUCP (Peter GOLDE) writes:

>BTW, just because string initialization of the type mentioned
>is "very rare" in YOUR code, don't think that it's very rare
>in other peoples code.  0 termination is not the best string 
>representation for many applications.

A good point.  Nonetheless, 0 termination is the standard in C.
There is no support anywhere else in the language for strings
which are not 0-terminated.  You have to write special code to
handle them wherever such are used.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com