counted strings

Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com>
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:23:13 +0300

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From: Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:23:13 +0300
Organization: Compilers Central
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Keywords: practice, lex
Posted-Date: 11 Jun 2022 09:58:11 EDT

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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