[PD-dev] Fwd: PD Strings

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Martin Peach wrote:

> In that other thread I mentioned that I've changed the name to A_BLOB 
> from A_STRING because it's not really about strings. There's also the 
> issue of the symbol "string" (now "blob") being reserved by my patch, 
> which I think is not necessary so it's going to get changed next time I 
> have time to comprehend what's involved.

As long as you support strings that have embedded nulls, there is no 
difference between a string and a blob. Given the number of languages that 
support embedded nulls, you could safely call a blob a string.

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