Re: GD: <c-string> question

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• Subject: Re: GD: <c-string> question
• From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
• Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:45:02 -0500 (EST)
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• Sender: andreas@soma.andreas.org
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"Gabor Greif" <gabor@mac.com> writes:

> Right now I use
> make(<c-string>, string: "Hello")
> which works, but is it OK?

I'm astonished that this works, it shouldn't as far as I understand
the code. What you usually do is:

as(<c-string>, "Hello");

Working on native Dylan strings has a couple of advantages, such as
working bounds checking, 0 allowed as a character in the string,
etc. Only use a c-string when passing to native C code. In an ideal
world, you wouldn't even notice the existence of this class.

Andreas

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