The case against a C alternative

Re:The case against a C alternative by WalterBright on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:55AM (#32408981)

> It simply couldn't work with without those terminators.

Yeah, it will. For a related example, I use `grep` all the time to find strings in source code. Source code is not 0 terminated. It works fine.

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Re:The case against a C alternative by jstimpfle on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:22AM (#32409510)

I use "grep -w foo" (or something like "grep '\<foo\>'"), because when I look for "foo" I don't want "bazfoobar". grep -w only works because the end of words is signaled in-band (surrounding / terminating words with whitespace).

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