drogon wrote:
Neither way is perfect and both ways have issues. The BCPL way is limiting although it's not always obvious - writing an editor that supports an arbitrary line length for example...
-Gordon
I guess with the wider screens one can have 80x132 text windows.
I did it this to way have easy upgrade path, so I can hand port programs
in C like my cross assembler to the language I am using for this machine.
The correct way is type string { int size; int length, buffer[];}
The same could be said for any array type.
We have yet to fix bugs with C strings and we keep getting more and more
versions of text encoding.
Ben.