Re: [boost] [string] proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [string] proposal
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-21 07:45:47

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 1/21/2011 7:07 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>> Mostly I'm interested in seeing a string class that is:
>>
>> 1. Immutable. No if's or but's about it. I don't want a string to be
>> modifiable. Period. You can create it, and once it's created, that's
>> it.
>>
>> 2. Has real value semantics. This means, once you've copied it, that's
>> really copied. No funky copy-on-write reference-counting mumbo-jumbo.
>
> Uh, if the string is immutable, then two strings can transparently share
> the same data. There is no "write" in "copy-on-write". That's the
> definition of immutable. :-)
>

Ha! You're right. :D Now if you can make this work without reference
counting, that'd be perfect. :D

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Dean Michael Berris
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