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		amelius on July 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: strcpy: A niche function you don't need It might sound obvious to you now, but most functional languages conceptually store strings as nil-terminated lists ...

kaba0 on July 31, 2021 [–]

The problem is memory safety and functional languages won’t read into another object’s memory even with a logical bug.

And a null-terminated linked list is different from a C-string.

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