On: Goodbye C++, Hello C

[pjmlp]

Only in C, even C++ has since the early days adopted proper strings on its standard library, initially the compiler specific ones from the early 90's, then the standard one.

[dr_zoidberg → pjmlp]

Sure, its just that these kind of strings were historically called Pascal-strings [0] because they were the way Pascal implemented strings.

[0] And still are! For example, Python refers to them as such, see the "p" (lowercase p) character code here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html#format-strings

[pjmlp → dr_zoidberg]

Not all C++ string libraries use Pascal strings.

Some of them use a fat pointer instead, with a mix of counter, pointer to the end, and null terminator for C compatibility.

[dr_zoidberg → pjmlp]

That's ingenious, but I don't think I've heard a name for those kind of strings.

[pjmlp → dr_zoidberg]

One thing is certain, they aren't Pascal strings.