Re: programming

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* J.A.Serralheiro (mrserra@ci.uc.pt) spake thusly:
> so, there is no way to know in advance the length of a string unless you
> have an identifier, or constant for it. 

Que? You can't know $FOO of $BAR until you take $BAR in and see what
sort of $FOO it has. You can't know the length of a string until you 
read it in and count the characters.

Is that what you're asking?

Shroedinger's Cat (there is no "string" in C, BTW)
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