And, of course, I'm sure its completely safe to treat something as a pointer but explicitly set it to memory you don't own (i.e. just past the end of the string

And, of course, I'm sure its completely safe to treat something as a pointer but explicitly set it to memory you don't own (i.e. just past the end of the string). I guess we could point to the last byte and doom everyone to inevitable off-by-one errors in string length computation.