On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:07:51 +0800 Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis@gmail.com> 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. [...]
I'm confused by this. You want the basic type to always act as if it's const, with no way to modify the string at ALL after it's been created?
I think strings are different from the encoding they're interpreted as. Let's fix the problem of a string data structure first then tack on encoding/decoding as something that depends on the string abstraction first.
That gets back to the problem that I was originally trying to solve with the UTF types: that a string needs a way to carry around its encoding. A UTF-8 type could be built on such a thing very easily. -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * *