[boost] Re: any interest in immutable_string/string pooling ?

From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-03 14:58:38

"Bohdan" <warever_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:ani4tl$it6$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> [...]
> Still do not understand. Maybe name immutable_string isn't ok.
> immutable_string instance can be modified as with normal string:
>
> <code>
>       void f( immutable_string & str )
>       {
>             str = "something else";
>       }
> </code>

Oh, I see.  I thought the strings themselves were also const.  That is
sufficient for what I'd like to do.  Otherwise, my comment about COW
was to implement exactly that. ;)

Dave