[rootbear]

I’ve wondered if there should be two string types in C, analogous to different length numeric types. Short strings (“tokens”? “words”?) could be Pascal style strings and longer strings (“buffers”) could be standard C-style null terminated strings. I’ve never tried to work this out for real, it just seems to me that one-size-fits-all strings might not be the best model.

[zzo38computer]

I think it would be better to have the string type being the address and length pair. Pascal strings store the length immediately before the data, which is different than what I think is better is to store the length separately.