Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!spraggej
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Friday, 1 Mar 1991 10:21:13 EST
From: John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <91060.102114SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: string ghosts
References:  <26159@adm.brl.mil>

The Turbo Pascal definition of a string would probably go
thus (formally): a string consists ONLY of the characters from
position 1 to <length>, where <length> is defined by byte 0.
Thus, memory after the string (even if it is reserved for future
string operations) is not part of the string; it is loose memory,
the same way that memory left on the heap after a DISPOSE is
loose memory, officially undefined.

disclaimer: Queen's University supplies me with computer services, not
            my opinions.

John G. Spragge