From: "Peter Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Add size of string termination to encodings (i.e., how many 0 bytes) > > Should string termination be required? If strings are assumed to be > terminated, it seems to me that precludes buffer re-use (copy-on-write) for > substrings. On the other hand, passing strings to native C library routines > requires the termination. One compromise would be for 'unique' strings to be > terminated, and do 'copy-on-read' if a non-unique string (i.e. one borrowing > a buffer) is passed to an external function.
The compromise you suggest is the way I saw it. David
