Why Is Escaping Data Considered So Magical?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 29/06/2010 01:55, Roy Smith wrote:

[snips]

> The nice thing about null-terminated strings is how portable they have
> been over various word lengths.

The bad thing about null-terminated strings is the number of off-by-one 
errors they've helped to create.  I obviously have never created an 
off-by-one error myself. :)

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.