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In article <4279@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>In the discussion about Bondage &
>Discipline langauges I said that a lanaguge like C was a B&D
>language if I want to call a routine by its name which I have
>in a string.

To be technically correct, what you should have said is that you want
to call a routine by its name which you have in an array of char
terminated by a null byte, and you think that C is a B&D language
because it does not directly support any operations on arrays of char
terminated by a null byte.  "Strings" are NOT first class objects in C,
nor should they be!  No matter how you implement strings (special
terminator, fixed length, keep size separately, etc.), there are always
some applications where it is advantageous, and others where it is not.
One of the benefits of C is that you can implement them any way you
want; the language doesn't tie you down to one implementation.  To call
this B&D (besides not using the original poster's definition) is
ludicrious.
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