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to: andrew clarke
from: Bek Oberin
date: 1995-07-06 10:14:00
subject: msqalpha

G'day,

 BO>> same with asciiz strings in general ...  bloody hard to
 BO>> debug when you're used to the pascal sort too.  grf.

 ac> True.  It did take me quite a while to get used to the new string
 ac> storage format when I was using ASCIIZ strings in TP.  I do prefer
 ac> ASCIIZ strings over the Pascal-style strings though.
 ac> I didn't (and still don't :-)) find any real difficulty in debugging
 ac> ASCIIZ strings though.  How are they difficult to debug?

Oh, I'm sure they're not /intrinsically/ difficult to deal with, it's just
that at the time I had just finished writing 12 k of
pascal-style-string string library.  I just didn't have my head in the right place...



Bek

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