2 Apr
2002
2 Apr
'02
10:36 a.m.
In article 3CA99056.25733.38E4CF@localhost, "Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)" african_chief@bigfoot.com writes
What about something like this:
Q. Any "gotchas"?
A. Be careful when passing string literals as parameters to routines accepting the string as a value parameter and that internally modify the value of the parameter. Inside the routine, the value parameter gets a fixed Capacity - the length of the string literal that was passed to it. Any attempt to assign a longer value will not work.
Sounds pretty good to me. I'd change the wording of the last sentence to read "Any attempt to increase the length of the string will fail."
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