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   Message 13,997 of 14,669   
   Barry Margolin to glen herrmannsfeldt   
   Re: question on RFC791   
   03 May 13 03:03:19   
   
   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    glen herrmannsfeldt  wrote:   
      
   > Jorgen Grahn  wrote:   
   > (snip, someone wrote)   
   >   
   > >>>> > Does it mean that it's possible to have IP packet carrying UDP   
   > >>>> > payload of size 0 ?   
   >   
   > (snip)   
   > > And also it should come as no surprise.  It's about as natural as a   
   > > programming language allowing zero-sized arrays/vectors/lists.   
   >   
   > About that natural, but it has been slow in coming.   
   >   
   > Fortran now does, but it didn't used to.   
   >   
   > Many still don't.   
      
   Many? Examples?   
      
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   Barry Margolin   
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