On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 12:12:29 +0000, Peter Relson wrote:
> ...
>PL/X does have the concept of a variable-length string (with the length being 
>in a separate variable, or in a preceding halfword).
>
PostScript has a fairly opaque "substring" with at lest 3 components:
o the string body
o the amount of storage in use
o the amount of storage allocated.
That last allows dyadic copy and concatenate operators without overrun hazard.

-- 
gil

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