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		rbanffy on June 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Designing a better strcpy Would it make sense to extend the C standard to have a sensible string type? /me ducks

pjmlp on June 19, 2021 [–]

It would, just like a sensible array type and proper enumerations as well.

Obviously WG14 doesn't care about it.

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