a commonly used argument interface in many data types with variable lengths (strings, arrays, arrays of arrays, etc...).
when the length is set to -1, it should indicate that the forward parsing should be executed till the very end.
no other negative number should be used besides -1.
furthermore, in the backwards transformation, a length argument that originally was -1 will turn into the actual length of the object,
rather than convert back into -1.
a commonly used argument interface in many data types with variable lengths (strings, arrays, arrays of arrays, etc...).
when the
lengthis set to-1, it should indicate that theforwardparsing should be executed till the very end. no other negative number should be used besides-1.furthermore, in the
backwards transformation, alengthargument that originally was-1will turn into the actual length of the object, rather than convert back into-1.