[PD-dev] Fwd: PD Strings

Martin Peach martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Mon Nov 12 21:14:44 CET 2007


Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>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.

Yes they support anything at all that will fit into the available RAM, 
that's why "string" is too restrictive a term for it, so I changed the name 
to "blob", and now "Blob's your uncle"...

Martin






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