[Rd] mkString (PR#866)

[Timothy H. Keitt]

Thomas Lumley wrote:

> 
> Don't do that, then?

Indeed, it could be a feature. :-)  (That said, I do prefer functions that handle all possible values of a type.)

T.

> 
> It's supposed to be passed a zero-terminated string, so it doesn't seem
> unreasonable for it to assume that it can dereference its argument. The C
> library functions don't in general accept NULL pointers as string
> arguments.
> 
> I suppose a check for NULL would be fairly harmless, though.
> 
> 	-thomas
> 
> Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley@u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle


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