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Hmm, section 11.10 of http://wiki.parsec.com/openvms_archive/freewarev70/bliss/bls... says that the built-in vector type does not do bounds checking (tho there are examples illustrating how to define your own vector type that does check).

The string handling functions in chapter 20 require the programmer to pass around separate pointer and length arguments, which is not what I would call proper strings.