To Walter, about char[] initialization by FF

[Derek Parnell]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:40:56 -0700, Unknown W. Brackets wrote:

> I'm trying to understand why this 0 thing is such an issue.  If your 
> second statement is valid, it makes the first moot - 0 or no 0.  Why 
> does it matter, then?

I think the issue is more that Andrew wants to have hex-FF as a legitimate
byte value anywhere in a char[] variable. He misses the point that the
purpose of not allowing it in so we can detected uninitialized UTF-8
strings at run-time.

Andrew, just use ubyte[] variables and you won't have a problem, apart from
conversions between code-pages and Unicode <G>.

In D, ubyte[] is the data structure designed to hold variable length arrays
of unsigned bytes, which is exactly what you need to implement the type
strings you have in KOI-8 encoding.

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Derek
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Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocrity!"
2/08/2006 4:24:27 PM