Variables can’t contain NUL

From	"Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Variables can’t contain NUL
Date	2018-05-20 04:56 +0200
Message-ID	<mailman.122.1526823499.1292.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	<564532BD.60801@tlinx.org> <20151113131735.GE27325@eeg.ccf.org>

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On 2015-11-13 at 07:17, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Actually in the most general case, where those output streams may
> contain NUL bytes, it requires two temp files, because you can't store
> arbitrary data streams in bash variables at all.

Why do bash variables use 0-terminated arrays instead of arrays structure
with a length attribute?

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