counted strings

From	Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	counted strings
Date	2022-06-11 00:23 +0300
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<22-06-034@comp.compilers> (permalink)

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I'm sorry for bringing more heat than light to this group.

Counted strings are important for protocols.  Not everything we write
a lexer for is human written.  Counted strings are a good way of
transmitting binary data.  This is just one way computers are
different than humans....

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