Re: Ada Idioms Progress Preview

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <umqr8ug55d9.fsf@maestro.clustra.com>, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com> writes:

> 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. The
> length of a string is usually different from the size of the array
> used to store the string.

That works until the day that all you need to know is the length.
At that point you must walk the string if you are terminator-based.
An example would be a search for all the "long" strings.