At 01:06 PM 9/20/2001 -0700, Robert Spier wrote:

>Dan,
>
>   Could you explain again why you don't want char* anywhere, and prefer 
> void*?

Because for character data we're not sure char * is right. (Might be 
wchar_t, __int16, __int32, or something else) It's also to shake off the 
"Oh, it's character data! I can use the <string.h> functions!" reaction.

                                        Dan

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