Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String

On 7/4/05, Nikolai Weibull
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Why should strings not be able to contain a NUL?  Again, that's a C
> remnant that makes no sense in a programming language like Ruby, where
> strings shouldn't necessarily be terminated by a '\0'.  I really hope
> that Ruby 2.0 won't continue to store Strings as C zero-terminated
> strings any more.  This is an issue that has to be dealt with in the C
> interface somehow, but seeing as the Ruby side of String is being
> changed this is as good an opportunity as ever to change the C side
> (hoho, what a pun) of it as well.

Ruby strings are NUL terminated?

Odd. I've had binary values in Ruby strings before.

-austin
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