[2h]

this ignores the fact that strings can contain a null character. for example, this is a valid Go program:

    package main
    
    import "fmt"
    
    func main() {
       fmt.Printf("%q\n", "hello \x00 world")
    }

[throwawaymaths]

I'm not sure what your point is. We're talking about c null terminated strings, not go.