"convert" string to bytes without changing data (encoding)

[Ross Ridge]

Chris Angelico  <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>Actually, he is justified. It's one thing to work in C or assembly and
>write code that depends on certain bit-pattern representations of data
>(although even that causes trouble - assuming that
>sizeof(int)=3D=3Dsizeof(int*) isn't good for portability), but in a high
>level language, you cannot assume any correlation between objects and
>bytes. Any code that depends on implementation details is risky.

How does that in anyway justify Evan Driscoll maliciously lying about
code he's never seen?

					Ross Ridge

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