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Flaw in Euphoria routines (Was: Re: puts() quirk)

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Apr 23, 2003
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:50:56 -0400, Sabal.Mike at notations.com wrote:
> Actually, this makes perfect sense.  Strings in most C-based modern
> languages are null terminated.  Any bytes after the null are considered
> garbage and thus not part of the string.  Since Euphoria's string
> handling is largely based on C routines, the first puts will see
> "cat\0\0\0\n", will see the first null (\0) and will stop the string at
> that point.  Since it never saw the newline, it never printed it.  The
> same is true for your second example.
> 
> HTH,
> Mike Sabal

But I feel, that since Euphoria does not have null-terminated strings,
that is
a bug. (Though, this can be considered stretching the issue a bit,
considering
Euphoria has no strings at all, just sequences, and that the closest
thing to a
real string in Euphoria has to be manipulated via the peek()/poke()
primitives).

This is perhaps not an easy fix though, considering the Euphoria
interpreter is
written in C ... short of making OS calls directly and bypassing the C
library,
or using C++ (somehow), I'm not aware how this could even be fixed.

jbrown


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