[boost] Re: immutable string

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-20 13:02:28

Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
[...]
> Here is the link: http://conststring.sourceforge.net/

"The mutability of std::basic_string<> and its interface do not allow 
 implementers to make it a lightweight value object with cheap copy 
 operation through string representation sharing and copy-on-write 
 technique while maintaining thread safety."

This claim borders on blatant FUD. Claims to the extent that std::
string is sorta "less thread-safe then char[]" don't hold water 
because there isn't non-const overload of operator[] for char[].

Or am I just missing something?

regards,
alexander.