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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:03:07 +0200
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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?