Re: Variables can’t contain NUL

[L A Walsh]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/21/18 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>   
> > If you're looking for some deeper answer, like "Why did Stephen Bourne
> > write it this way back in 1977?" then I would hazard a guess along the
> > lines of "It is tightly coupled to the underlying C argument-passing
> > interface which uses NUL-terminated strings."
> >     
>
> As well as the majority of the libc API, which depends on null-terminated
> strings.
>   
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   And so many bugs happen because of it.
   Maybe the C++ string class would would be more robust...
  
Wouldn't have to be all at once, but getting it to compile under C++ as
legacy C code might be a useful first step.

   Then specific features or areas could be targeted for rework
or what's the buzzword these days... oh yeah... refactoring! ;-)