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Re^3: How is perl able to handle the null byte?

by ChemBoy (Priest)
on Jun 15, 2006 at 21:50 UTC ( [id://555643]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: How is perl able to handle the null byte?
in thread How is perl able to handle the null byte?

Reminding me of a classic exchange from a CS class I took once (OK, the CS class I took...):

Student (slightly paraphrased): you mentioned that the address after the last member of the array is guaranteed to be a legal address, though you don't technically have it allocated to you. Don't a lot of people use that fact to just pretend their array indexes are 1-based instead of 0-based?

Professor: Lot's of people J-walk, too! Some of them get killed!

Ah, those were the days... ;-)


If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have given us the railroads.
    --Michael Flanders

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