[m-rev.] diff: implement concat_string_list for .NET

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Feb-2003, Michael Day <mikeday at yeslogic.com> wrote:
> 
> > There is a representation issue in that it would be nice to allow
> > every char to appear in a string, rather than excluding NULs.
> 
> Given that there is no way to create such a string in Mercury (right?) and

No, there are ways.  See the code I posted earlier in this thread.

> what kind of string representations do Java and C# have? Has 
> the world settled on C strings or are there still pockets of resistance?

Java and C# both have representations which keep track of the length
explicitly, and permit strings to contain null characters.

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