[Ecls-list] Kamen Lisp - ECL embedded in Firefox

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

2007/4/5, Dustin Long <dlong at stevens.edu>:
> Also, with the Fibonacci demo I linked to, sometimes there's excess
> characters showing up at the end of the output. I'm relying upon the
> manual's insistence that ecl_base_string->self is null terminated (this
> is still correct, right?)

All strings are null terminated, but if a string has a fill pointer,
the zero will be at the end of the string not where the fill pointer
points to. In other words, Common Lisp allows strings to have more
characters than those printed.

Juanjo

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