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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: What do you think about this?
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 08:55:23 -0500
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
> news:864mllqv7c.fsf@stephe-leake.org...

>> Using a bounded string always involves a hidden length limit; if it's
>> too small, you'll hit it sometime, if it's too big, you're wasting 
>> storage.
>
> Agreed, but in that case he probably should be using an unbounded string. 
> Let the compiler do the work, don't write memory management code yourself 
> (you'll always get it wrong).

The use case is declaring arrays of constant strings; no memory
management involved.

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-- Stephe