Re: NUL to terminate strings; was reinventing ASCII?

Torben Agidius Mogensen wrote:

> James Harris <james.harris.1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> > 1. strings need a terminating character
> 
> True, but why does the terminating character need to be null?  There
> is in the ASCII alphabet a control character EOT representing
> end-of-text.  That seems like a much more appropriate terminating
> character.

For one thing, that is a legal character in strings. You'd prevent
people using the ASCII char set from creating strings with EOT (or ETX
or whatever).




Brian