std.xml should just go

[Max Samukha]

On 02/04/2011 11:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Max Samukha wrote:
>> .NET and Qt do have slices of some kind:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1hsbd92d.aspx
>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qstringref.html#details
>>
>> I am not sure whether their XML libraries use those.
>
> .net's slices are inadequate, because its strings are not
> interchangeable with slices. When they're not interchangeable, then you
> wind up being forced to make copies.

Right. The same applies to Qt. Whenever a QStringRef is converted to 
QString, a copy is made.