Obtaining an address given a (run time) variable name

[Paul Backus]

On Tuesday, 21 January 2025 at 09:34:29 UTC, DLearner wrote:
> Suppose we have:
> ```
> string str1 = "A" ~ "B";
> ```
>
> Does that produce:
>    str1 == x'41' x'42' x'00' or
>         == x'41' x'00' x'42' x'00' or
>         == x'41' x'00' x'42' x'00' x'00'?
>
> And is str1.length == 2 or
>                    == 3 or
>                    == 4?

It produces

     str1 == x'41' x'42'

...and then directly after str1 in the binary, there is an 
additional byte of storage that contains x'00'.