JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 1352a7d8e5cb3fd06aa94a26c086744e1c50df41
File: j/string.j line 167
By JeffBezanson:

No, we don't want to emulate that. Since we don't use nul-terminated strings, 0 is just another character. 0 here is not part of the printf abstraction, it's interference from C's mixing of content and metadata.