[mercury-users] Prolog DCGs Pattern Matching in Mercury

[Fergus Henderson]

On 29-Apr-2003, Ondrej Bojar <oboj7042 at ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
>    "foo"
> in Mercury is interpreted as
>    "foo"
> i.e. the string itself; represented as a null-terminated sequence of
> bytes.

For the record, the actual representation of strings in Mercury
is implementation-dependent.  Although the C and assembler back-ends
of the current Mercury compiler do use null-terminated sequences of bytes,
the Java and .NET back-ends do not; those back-ends use a representation
which is capable of storing strings that contain embedded null characters.

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