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Re:John Carmack: Career Advice
by MaxBarraclough on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:22AM
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I meant the scheme used to indicate it's part of a multi-part message.
the 1/n scheme indicates the length of the sequence upfront, whereas the backslash scheme doesn't.
> the 1/n scheme indicates the length of the sequence upfront, whereas the backslash scheme doesn't.
I've seen a variation of the 1/n scheme that literally uses "1/n", "2/n", etc. to avoid specifying the length up front. Usually the end of the sequence isn't indicated in that case.
On the other hand, null-terminated strings are avoided by most modern programming languages, which tend to explicitly store the string's length.