on Sun, 15 Aug 2004 Mark Wieder wrote: > The last time I checked, Pascal used strings that > had a length byte as > their first character, instead of being > null-terminated. The > conversion from one form to the other is pretty > easy.
I agree completely. > At one time I used a hybrid string form internally: > length + string + null termination > > and I could then use it as a pascal string or a C > string, depending on > whether I specified it starting at byte 0 or byte 1. That's was a highly clever style of coding! But not without its risk! Five years ago, i was coding almost daily in pascal, but when i learned that to program interfaces in mac i had to digest these massive apple programming books, i turned to hypercard and never look back! Now, i had to start with C code to have a zlib compression dll for pdf writing. al ===== Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
