Re: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

[Ronald J Kimball]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:09:12AM +0100, Detlef Lindenthal wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> you are right in that you look for precision/safety.
> The safety leak does not seem to be that big; what
> I found: Only if you have the (very rare) string "styl\0"
> within your text your programme will fuddle (or
> did I miss something?)

Or if you have a style section that is longer than 16777215 bytes.  Also
unlikely, I suppose.  Still, I don't know why it would be preferable to
write a solution with these obscure limitations (which will be difficult to
debug if they're ever hit) when there's another approach which is correct
and robust.

Ronald