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To: mrjoltc...@mindspring.com (Melvin Smith)
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Melvin Smith <mrjoltc...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 05:14 PM 12/5/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>     set I2, P1["Foo\x00i"]   # I1 == I2
>>
>>gets currently the attribute idx (0) of "$Foo::i".
>>Q: Should the assembler mangle the "Foo::i" to "Foo\0i"

> Something about this embedded \0 character
> bugs me. I know its what Dan has in the design doc but
> it just seems too cryptic.

Yeah its ungly. OTOH it should be really transparent for all possible
HLLs. And the NUL most certainly is.

> -Melvin

leo