f python?

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <20120408114313.85 at kylheku.com>, on 04/08/2012
   at 07:14 PM, Kaz Kylheku <kaz at kylheku.com> said:

>Null-terminated strings are infinitely better than the ridiculous
>encapsulation of length + data.

ROTF,LMAO!

>For one thing, if s is a non-empty null terminated string then,
>cdr(s) is also a string representing the rest of that string 
>without the first character,

Are you really too clueless to differentiate between C and LISP?

>Null terminated strings have simplified all kids of text
>manipulation, lexical scanning, and data storage/communication 
>code resulting in immeasurable savings over the years.

Yeah, especially code that needs to deal with lengths and nulls. It's
great for buffer overruns too.

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