On: The case for a modern language

[prirun]

I read your article before posting, and it says:

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void foo(char a[..])

meaning an array is passed as a so-called “fat pointer”, i.e. a pair consisting of a pointer to the start of the array, and a size_t of the array dimension.

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I didn't see a "current length" mentioned. Is it there? Can I have a string with an allocated length of 20 bytes and a current length of 10 bytes, without using a looking for a zero byte?

[WalterBright → prirun]

The capacity value is not part of it.

This proposal is not about memory management any more than 0 termination is about memory management. It is just about finding the end of the array.