Re: NUL to terminate strings; was reinventing ASCII?

On 2008-03-11, Eric Sosman <esosman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> 
>> A string can be an contiguous sequence of char - even with a length
prefix.
>> Whether it's C compliant is a separate issue.  The header containing
the
>> length just needs to be placed prior to the address representing the
start
>> of the string.
>
>      "Prior to," but at what distance?
>
> 	char *string = "Vogon poetry";
> 	assert (strlen(string) == 12);
> 	assert (strlen(string+6) == ???);

This is indeed a problem for C. A subset of any other string wouldn't be
typecast compatible to a string.