Re: Programming question

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:24:03PM -0400, George Schlossnagle > wrote: > > On a related note, placing null-bytes in the middle of strings > > (for example > > in the names of the so-called lambda_functions generated from > > create_function()) seems like a pretty questionable practice. > > why, this makes sure that function-names generated by > create_function() will never clash with userland code. > i think that makes perfect sense. It seem sto me that there are ways of accomplishing this that allow for this without breaking compatibility of that string with standard string functions, for exampla an ANSI-like standard prohibiting userland functions begnning with __ or using a non-null, low ascii character (say 0x07). George