Subject: Re: Scheme implementation in C++
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/10/20
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <8sqdv3$bo5cc$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Boris Schaefer  <boris@uncommon-sense.net> wrote:
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| rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
| | My point was that Scheme strings, unlike C strings, *allow*
| | ASCII "NUL" characters (C '\0' characters) in the string, and
| | thus there is no way in general to export full Scheme strings
| | as C strings.
| 
| Well, the original poster asked about C++ and `std::string' is
| counted and allows ASCII "NUL", just like Scheme strings.
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Aha! Not being a C++ person, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.


-Rob

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