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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada Idioms Progress Preview
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"Jay Nabonne" <jay@rightagain.com> wrote in message news:<ZtUe7.1224$3T2.44851@news.pacbell.net>...
> "James Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:3B783712.88029BB8@worldnet.att.net...
> > Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing which can be said in favour of having a terminator character
> > > is that it frees you from having to store the length explicitly. 

Note that there is very little in the C core language that mandates
null-terminated strings (literals have a null character after them
and that's it). Really this convention is embodied in the library
routines, and of course it would be trivial to write a similar set
of routines in Ada for Ada use, and indeed even simpler, you can just
write a simple set of pragma import's and call the C routines directly.