First Impressions
Matthias Spycher
matthias at coware.com
Fri Sep 29 10:48:05 PDT 2006
Immutability and some guarantees about the validity of the state of an
immutable string in a concurrent setting are what set Java strings
apart. Garbage collection without immutable strings in the standard
library is quite out of the ordinary.
Walter Bright wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> And is it there yet? I mean, given that a string is just a lump of
>> text, is
>> there any text processing operation that cannot be simply done to a
>> char[]
>> item? I can't think of any but maybe somebody else can.
>
> I believe it's there. I don't think std::string or java.lang.String have
> anything over it.
>
>> And if a char[] is just as capable as a std::string, then why not have an
>> official alias in Phobos? Will 'alias char[] string' cause anyone any
>> problems?
>
> I don't think it'll cause problems, it just seems pointless.
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