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From: "G.B." <rm-dash-bau-haus@dash.futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Help with type definition
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:03:07 +0200
Date: 2014-05-16T12:03:07+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5375e25b$0$6605$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fg1g0pncjb4l$.1qve7hld7nxqv.dlg@40tude.net>

On 16.05.14 09:54, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Why -1 should
> indicate null string and not 0 is a mystery.

Very likely because of s[0] being a char at offset 0 at
the C end of things, but -1 being suitably off there?



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-16  7:37 Help with type definition hanslad
2014-05-16  7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-05-16 10:03   ` G.B. [this message]
2014-05-16 11:26   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-05-16 15:38   ` Shark8
2014-05-16 15:50     ` Simon Wright
2014-05-16 16:30       ` Shark8
2014-05-16 11:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-05-16 12:29 ` G.B.
2014-05-16 17:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-05-21 20:45 ` hanslad
2014-06-27 22:05 ` hanslad
2014-06-28  7:26   ` Shark8
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