Re: [boost] [string] proposal

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. :-) -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com