gets() and "string" variable type
I have followed the CR / LF / CRLF discussion with interest.
Personally I am with Christian in agreeing that gets() is to
look for the reasonable end-of-line indicator, which can be
any of those arrangements, with VT or FF thrown in too.
What I would like to see addressed too is the possibility
of a type "string", which is a string of bytes rather than
a sequence of 32-bit words. The memory saving is significant,
and the possibility of strings containing non-characters is
completely removed. Granted one could force the latter but
you still have this wasteful 32-bits per character. A poke()/
peek() could reduce the data size but is a very messy way to go.
I suppose the Unicode argument will wreck all I have said,
but a string type would simplify a lot of text processing.
So - comments?
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