[mercury-users] string_stream impl, re: redirecting output to streams

[Michael Day]

> On this note I feel there is a big need for binary string support
> (strings with null bytes). It's difficult to do meaningful binary string
> buffer operations with the current (null-terminated) string library. I
> hacked up a quick and dirty binary string library which uses strings
> with an explicit length, but I think the right thing to do is to change
> the standard string library to operate this way. Any objections, in
> principle?

Personally I like the ease of interoperability with C-style strings, that
is a very strong point in favour when interfacing with foreign code, and
we have lots of code that takes advantage of that.

Cheers,

Michael

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