From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   Chris F Clark schrieb:   
      
   > The idea of having the length at the end of the string (and perhaps   
   > pointing to that end also) has a certain appeal.  You can even follow   
   > your length field with a max size field to get a good solution for   
   > mutable strings with lengths (crude monospaced ascii art below).   
   >   
   > pointer-------------------V   
   > |unused-space|chars....|0|length|max-size|   
   > ..^............^-----------+......|   
   > ..+-------------------------------+   
      
   What's the essential difference vs. having the length and max-size   
   information *before* the text?   
      
   I only can see disadvantages with many common string operations, in   
   detail with string concatenation or appending characters to such an   
   string buffer.   
      
   DoDi   
      
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