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

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but they can contain NUL bytes, as they have len field for the Ruby
side.  On the C side of it they're a bit more troublesome,
        nikolai

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