GW>    Write and post a snippet of string handling code 
 GW> that clearly shows the superiority of the above to a 
 GW> simple *l='\0'.  Other than hiding sloppy string '\0' 
 GW> terminating logic.
Before anyone gets too far into this, I just want to point out to observers 
that this ONLY DEALS WITH C-style STRINGS, not buffers.  That is, if you are 
to do binary data, memset'ing to all 0 may be beneficial.
(I find that sometimes these long arguments that get nowhere also lose focus, 
and don't want any newbies to misunderstand the argument.)
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