properly passing strings to functions? (C++ vs D)

[Ali Çehreli]

On 1/11/21 8:22 AM, zack wrote:
> On Monday, 11 January 2021 at 15:25:58 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> I meant allocation... The following prints "1", so no allocation.
> 
> Just tried on Windows with Visual Studio, it prints "0". So I guess this 
> is platform/compiler dependent.

Yes. Earlier C++ string implementations used reference counting, which 
caused multi-threading complications; so, many implementations switched 
to copying.

Ali