Oh I see what you're saying - you can have `char * x = "foo"` and `char * y = &x[1]` (or something - I forget the exact syntax). That's a very good point! So to

Oh I see what you're saying - you can have `char * x = "foo"` and `char * y = &x[1]` (or something - I forget the exact syntax). That's a very good point! So to be regular you'd need a whole host of other commands to deal with substrings. I guess that makes the point that what they chose is probably correct, but it's still quite disappointing that the stdlib doesn't help more to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot with pretty common operations and data-types.