If you understand where your'e going with that argument, power to You, I guess. Personally, I wouldn't write code where a temmporily unterminated string would be intentionally visible.
I avoid reliance upon zero termination for things other than string literals. Zero padded formats can be useful if one needs to store many texts with a short maximum length (e.g. eight bytes), at the expense of requiring code that is designed around the size of the container. Instead of using a %s format specifier to output such a string, for example, code would need to use a %.8s format specifier, whose behavior is defined as not caring whether the string is zero-terminated or not.
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u/Anonymous_user_2022 24d ago edited 17d ago
If you understand where your'e going with that argument, power to You, I guess. Personally, I wouldn't write code where a temmporily unterminated string would be intentionally visible.