Comment by jacquesm
2 years ago
My experience as a programmer of some 40 years in C has yet to expose me to a C compiler that has length based rather than nul terminated strings as the base string type. Please point me to one in somewhat widespread use rather than an experimental implementation that uses this concept and make sure not to confuse libraries with the implementation of the language.
Since no C/C++ compiler supports it, for them implementation is in a library.
So that means they are not part of C/C++. Which was the point. You can write software in C/C++ but that's hardly news and you can use that to create new data types that are not in the language, which also is hardly news.
People suggesting it are concerned about security, they don't intend it to be a novel invention. Bound checking predates C.
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